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Abstract

To facilitate the current and future automation needs, the research community constantly seeks to develop dynamic and efficient autonomous decision-making agents. These agents must not only be robust to modeling uncertainties, internal and external changes, but can adapt to a range of tasks also. Recent progress in deep reinforcement learning has corroborated to its potential to train such autonomous and robust agents. At the same time, the introduction of curriculum learning has made the reinforcement learning process significantly more efficient and allowed for training on much broader tasks. This combination, Curriculum-based Deep Reinforcement Learning (CDRL), presents a powerful solution to meet the increasing complexity of today's automation industry that demands highly intelligent machines. With this work we present a concise review of CDRL methods within the context of their application to the field of adaptive robotics.