LEAGUE++: EMPOWERING CONTINUAL ROBOT LEARNING THROUGH GUIDED SKILL ACQUISITION WITH LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS

To support daily human tasks, robots need to tackle intricate, long-term tasks and continuously acquire new skills to handle new problems. Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) offers potential for learning fine-grained skills but relies heavily on human-defined rewards and faces challenges with long-horizon tasks. Task and Motion Planning (TAMP) are adept at handling long-horizon tasks but often need tailored domain-specific skills, resulting in practical limitations and inefficiencies. To address these challenges, we developed LEAGUE++, a framework that leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to harmoniously integrate TAMP and DRL for continuous skill learning in long-horizon tasks. Our framework achieves automatic task decomposition, operator creation, and dense reward generation for efficiently acquiring the desired skills. To facilitate new skill learning, LEAGUE++ maintains a symbolic skill library and utilizes the existing model from semantic-related skill to warm start the training. Our method, LEAGUE++, demonstrates superior performance compared to baselines across four challenging simulated task domains. Furthermore, we demonstrate the ability to reuse learned skills to expedite learning in new task domains. Video results are shown at https://sites.google.com/view/continuallearning.