We present a data-efficient framework for solving visuomotor sequential decision-making problems which exploits the combination of reinforcement learning (RL) and latent variable generative models. Our framework trains deep visuomotor policies by introducing an action latent variable such that the feed-forward policy search can be divided into three parts: (i) training a sub-policy that outputs a distribution over the action latent variable given a state of the system, (ii) unsupervised training of a generative model that outputs a sequence of motor actions conditioned on the latent action variable, and (iii) supervised training of the deep visuomotor policy in an end-to-end fashion. Our approach enables safe exploration and alleviates the data-inefficiency problem as it exploits prior knowledge about valid sequences of motor actions. Moreover, we provide a set of measures for evaluation of generative models such that we are able to predict the performance of the RL policy training prior to the actual training on a physical robot. We define two novel measures of disentanglement and local linearity for assessing the quality of latent representations, and complement them with existing measures for assessment of the learned distribution. We experimentally determine the characteristics of different generative models that have the most influence on performance of the final policy training on a robotic picking task.
Oracle-Guided Masked Contrastive Reinforcement Learning for Visuomotor Policies
School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University(南洋理工大学机械与航空航天工程学院);College of Automation Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics(南京航空航天大学自动化工程学院)
VAMPS: Visual and Motor Policies from Sampling-Based Planning
LAAS-CNRS, Université de Toulouse, CNRS(LAAS-CNRS,图卢兹大学,法国国家科学研究中心);Machines in Motion Laboratory, New York University(纽约大学运动机器实验室);Industrial Engineering Department, University of Trento(特伦托大学工业工程系);Artificial and Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute (ANITI)(图卢兹人工与自然智能研究所(ANITI))
Introspective Visuomotor Control: Exploiting Uncertainty in Deep Visuomotor Control for Failure Recovery
Applied AI Lab (A2I)(应用人工智能实验室(A2I));Dynamic Robot Systems (DRS)(动态机器人系统实验室(DRS));Oxford Robotics Institute (ORI), University of Oxford(牛津大学牛津机器人研究所(ORI))
FocalPolicy: Frequency-Optimized Chunking and Locally Anchored Flow Matching for Coherent Visuomotor Policy
State Key Laboratory of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences(机器人与智能系统国家重点实验室,沈阳自动化研究所,中国科学院);University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院大学);University of Trento(特伦多大学)
Fast and Robust Visuomotor Riemannian Flow Matching Policy
Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence(博世人工智能中心);Division of Robotics, Perception, and Learning, KTH Royal Institute of Technology(机器人、感知与学习 division,皇家理工学院);Computer Science Department of the Technische Universität Darmstadt(达姆施塔特技术大学计算机科学系)
Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院自动化研究所);School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院大学人工智能学院);State Key Laboratory of Brain Cognition and Brain-Inspired Intelligence Technology(脑认知与脑启发智能技术国家重点实验室);Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院半导体研究所)
High-Fidelity One-Step Generative Visuomotor Policy via Recursive Correction, Frequency Consistency, and Contrastive Flow Matching
School of Safety Science and Engineering, Anhui University of Science and Technology(安徽理工大学安全科学与工程学院);State Key Laboratory of Digital Intelligent Technology for Unmanned Coal Mining, Anhui University of Science and Technology(安徽理工大学煤矿智能开采技术与装备国家重点实验室);School of Artificial Intelligence, Anhui University of Science and Technology(安徽理工大学人工智能学院)
Score and Distribution Matching Policy: Advanced Accelerated Visuomotor Policies via Matched Distillation
Westlake University(西湖大学);Southwest University(西南大学);Zhejiang University(浙江大学);Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Blockchain and Privacy Computing(北京未来区块链与隐私计算高精尖创新中心);School of Artificial Intelligence, Beihang University(北京航空航天大学人工智能学院)
Learning Adaptive Cross-Embodiment Visuomotor Policy with Contrastive Prompt Orchestration
School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University(南洋理工大学机械与航空航天工程学院);College of Automation Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics(南京航空航天大学自动化工程学院)
DINOv3-Diffusion Policy: Self-Supervised Large Visual Model for Visuomotor Diffusion Policy Learning
Department of Computing and Mathematics, Manchester Metropolitan University(计算与数学系,曼彻斯特 Metropolitan 大学);Department of Computing, Imperial College London(计算系,帝国理工学院伦敦分校)
A Study on Enhancing the Generalization Ability of Visuomotor Policies via Data Augmentation
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院大学);School of Artificial Intelligence & Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences & NLPR(中国科学院人工智能学院与自动化研究所)
ImitDiff: Transferring Foundation-Model Priors for Distraction Robust Visuomotor Policy
Ningbo Global Innovation Center, Zhejiang University(浙江大学宁波全球创新中心);Tsinghua University(清华大学);Youtu, Tencent(腾讯优图);The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen(香港中文大学(深圳));College of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University(浙江大学控制科学与工程学院)