Webots sim-to-real fixes, DAgger pipeline, 360° proto variant

Today's session worked across the full Webots delivery stack — found and
fixed a cluster of bugs blocking the BC/RL transfer, then explored
training-side mitigations for the residual perception gap.

Bug fixes:
- Makefile FP_RATE default 2.0 → 0.0: BC demos used fp_rate=0 but RL
  fine-tune defaulted to fp_rate=2, poisoning the BC obs distribution
  and stalling PPO at 0% success across 1.46M+ steps.
- controllers/{shepherd_dog,sheep}/runtime.ini: Webots was launching
  controllers under system python3 (no numpy) and they were crashing
  silently. Pinned to the conda tir env.
- herding/config.py HERDING_WEBOTS preset: pen_latch_depth 0.5 → 2.0,
  max_new_tracks_per_step 3 → 1, static_reject 0.8 → 1.2. Stops phantom
  FPs near the gate from latching as permanently-penned tracks.
- herding/perception/sheep_tracker.py: penned tracks now decay at
  forget_steps × 8 instead of living forever. Adds get_positions
  min_freshness filter for deploy-time use.

Training/eval matches deployment:
- training/bc/collect.py: --dagger-policy flag for DAgger rollouts
  (policy drives, teacher labels) + --use-webots-preset for matched
  140° tracker + DR config.
- controllers/shepherd_dog/shepherd_dog.py: scan-fallback (0, 0.6) when
  BC/RL sees empty sheep_positions — recovers from FOV gaps.

Tooling:
- tools/dagger_round.sh: one-shot DAgger round (collect + concat + bc).
- tools/webots_sweep_gt.sh: full sweep with HERDING_USE_GT=1 for the
  perception-gap diagnosis matrix.
- protos/ShepherdDog360.proto: 360° FOV variant for the FOV-ablation
  comparison. Canonical proto stays at 140° per project spec.

Artifacts: v1 BC/RL policies for all 4 (drive × world) combos trained
in clean gym (success: diff/field 90-100%, diff/round 58%, mec/field
60-100%, mec/round 50-100%). DAgger r1/r2 BCs for diff/field show
12%→38% progression on gym HERDING_WEBOTS proxy but did not close
to actual Webots LiDAR (0/5 throughout). Next: LSTM policy or
learned tracker per the project-state memory.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Johnny Fernandes
2026-05-16 17:21:02 +00:00
parent c61df91950
commit dd5ac669e5
34 changed files with 2336 additions and 188 deletions
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@@ -38,12 +38,12 @@ MODE=${2:-bc}
DRIVE=${3:-differential}
WORLD=${4:-field}
if (( N < 1 || N > 10 )); then
echo "N must be 1..10, got $N" >&2; exit 1
if (( N < 0 || N > 10 )); then
echo "N must be 0..10, got $N" >&2; exit 1
fi
case "$MODE" in
bc|rl|strombom|sequential|universal) ;;
*) echo "MODE must be bc|rl|strombom|sequential|universal, got '$MODE'" >&2; exit 1 ;;
bc|rl|strombom|sequential|universal|calibrate) ;;
*) echo "MODE must be bc|rl|strombom|sequential|universal|calibrate, got '$MODE'" >&2; exit 1 ;;
esac
case "$DRIVE" in
differential|mecanum) ;;
@@ -83,29 +83,31 @@ cp "$SRC" "$DST"
if [[ "$DRIVE" == "mecanum" ]]; then
sed -i 's|"../protos/ShepherdDog.proto"|"../protos/ShepherdDogMecanum.proto"|' "$DST"
sed -i 's|^ShepherdDog {|ShepherdDogMecanum {|' "$DST"
# Inject mecanum contact properties after the existing contactProperties block.
# Inject mecanum contact properties into the contactProperties array.
# Strategy: find the closing ' ]' that ends the contactProperties block
# (it sits at 2-space indent, immediately before the WorldInfo closing brace)
# and insert just before it.
python3 -c "
import re, sys
with open(sys.argv[1], 'r') as f:
with open('$DST', 'r') as f:
txt = f.read()
# Find the closing ']' of contactProperties and insert before it.
mec = '''
ContactProperties {
mec = ''' ContactProperties {
material1 \"MecanumWheel\"
coulombFriction [
2
1.0
]
bounce 0
forceDependentSlip [
10
0.01
]
softCFM 0.0001
}'''
# Insert before the first ']' that closes contactProperties [...]
txt = re.sub(r'(contactProperties\s*\[[^\]]*)(\])', r'\1' + mec + r'\2', txt, count=1)
with open(sys.argv[1], 'w') as f:
}
'''
# The contactProperties array closes with ' ]\n}' (2-space indent ] then WorldInfo }).
# Insert the new block just before that closing ].
txt = txt.replace('\n ]\n}', '\n' + mec + ' ]\n}', 1)
with open('$DST', 'w') as f:
f.write(txt)
" "$DST"
"
fi
# Comment out sheep N+1..10 by prefixing the matching Sheep { ... } line.
@@ -129,6 +131,7 @@ HERDING_MODE=$MODE
HERDING_POLICY_DIR=$RESOLVED_POLICY_DIR
HERDING_DRIVE=$DRIVE
HERDING_WORLD=$WORLD
HERDING_USE_GT=${HERDING_USE_GT:-0}
EOF
export HERDING_MODE="$MODE"