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The tandem truck backer-upper (TTBU) problem is an extension of the single trailer truck-backer upper problem where this problem uses a trailer truck with two trailers instead of one, which is considered to be nearly impossible for humans alone. A pure reinforcement learning approach has not be used to solve this problem, however, an assistive control scheme for this problem has been developed system that merely assists, but does not replace, the truck driver in backing up the tandem trailer. The work described herein is the first to use a simple reinforcement learning approach to begin to learn the tandem trailer-backer upper problem, and we explore the ability of the temporal difference algorithm to learn this problem in this chapter.
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Gatti, C. (2015). The Tandem Truck Backer-Upper Problem. In: Design of Experiments for Reinforcement Learning. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12197-0_7
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