Safety filter separates task and safety learning in robot control

FAITH trains a task policy through a learned feedforward safety filter, avoiding competing objectives and handling infeasible states by minimizing predicted harm.

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Songyuan Zhang · Baljeet Singh · Sarthak Ranjeet Kaingade · Chuchu Fan · Bryan Trinh

Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Amazon

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The authors propose FAITH, which learns a state-action safety value function using a safety critic and a backup actor, then amortizes minimal-intervention filtering with a feedforward network.

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FAITH trains a robot's task policy through a learned safety filter, achieving high safety and performance without competing objectives.

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