In recent years, there has been significant development in the field of large pre-trained models for robot policy learning. The term “policy representation” here refers to the different ways of interacting with robots' decision-making mechanisms, which can potentially facilitate generalization to new tasks and environments. Vision-Language-Action (VLA) The models are pre-trained with large-scale robot data to integrate visual perception, language understanding, and action-based decision making to guide robots in various tasks. Above vision-language models (VLM)They hold the promise of generalization to new objects, scenes, and tasks. However, VLA They still need to be more reliable to be deployed outside of the tight laboratory environments in which they are trained. While these drawbacks can be mitigated by expanding the scope and diversity of robot data sets, this is resource-intensive and challenging to scale. Simply put, these policy representations must provide more context or an overspecified context that produces less robust policies.
Existing political representations, such as language, goal imagesand trajectory sketches They are widely used and are useful. One of the most common political representations is the conditioning of language. Most robot data sets are labeled with poorly specified descriptions of the task, and the language-based guidance does not provide sufficient guidance on how to perform the task. Policies conditioned on the target image provide detailed spatial information about the final target configuration of the scene. However, target images have many dimensions, which presents learning challenges due to overspecification problems. Intermediate representations, such as trajectory sketches or key points, attempt to provide spatial planes to guide the robot's actions. While these spatial plans provide guidance, they still lack sufficient information for policy on how to make specific moves.
A team of Google DeepMind researchers conducted detailed research on policy representation for robots and proposed RT-Affordability which is a hierarchical model that first creates a performance plan given the language of the task and then uses the policy of this performance plan to guide the robot's manipulation actions. In robotics, affordability refers to the potential interactions that an object allows for a robot, based on its shape, size, etc. RT-Affordability The model can easily connect heterogeneous monitoring sources, including large web data sets and robot trajectories.
First, the availability plan is predicted for the given task language and the initial task image. This performance plan is then combined with language instructions to condition the policy for the execution of the task. It is then projected onto the image and then the policy is conditional on images overlaid with the benefit plan. The model is co-trained on web datasets (the largest data source), robot trajectories, and a modest number of cheap-to-collect images labeled with affordances. This approach benefits from leveraging both robot trajectory data and extensive web datasets, allowing the model to generalize well across new objects, scenes, and tasks.
The research team carried out several experiments that mainly focused on how the devices help improve robotic grasping, especially for movements of household items with complex shapes (such as teapots, dustpans and pots). A detailed evaluation showed that RT-A remains solid in several out of distribution (OOD) settings, such as novel objects, camera angles and backgrounds. The RT-A model performed better than RT-2 and its variant conditioned by objectives, achieving success rates of 68%-76% compared to RT-2 24%-28%. On tasks beyond comprehension, such as placing objects in containers, RT-A showed significant performance with a 70% success rate. However, the RT-A's performance decreased slightly when faced with completely new objects.
In conclusion, affordability-based policies are well targeted and also work better. The RT-Affordance method significantly improves the robustness and generalization of robot policies, making it a valuable tool for various manipulation tasks. Although it cannot adapt to completely new moments or skills, RT-Affordance outperforms traditional methods in terms of performance. This cost-effective technique opens the door to several future research opportunities in robotics and can serve as a basis for future studies!
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