We focus on the task of goal-oriented grasping, in which a robot is supposed to grasp a pre-assigned goal object in clutter and needs some pre-grasp actions such as pushes to enable stable grasps. However, in this task, the robot gets positive rewards from environment only when successfully grasping the goal object. Besides, joint pushing and grasping elongates the action sequence, compounding the problem of reward delay. Thus, sample inefficiency remains a main challenge in this task. In this paper, a goal-conditioned hierarchical reinforcement learning formulation with high sample efficiency is proposed to learn a push-grasping policy for grasping a specific object in clutter. In our work, sample efficiency is improved by two means. First, we use a goal-conditioned mechanism by goal relabeling to enrich the replay buffer. Second, the pushing and grasping policies are respectively regarded as a generator and a discriminator and the pushing policy is trained with supervision of the grasping discriminator, thus densifying pushing rewards. To deal with the problem of distribution mismatch caused by different training settings of two policies, an alternating training stage is added to learn pushing and grasping in turn. A series of experiments carried out in simulation and real world indicate that our method can quickly learn effective pushing and grasping policies and outperforms existing methods in task completion rate and goal grasp success rate by less times of motion. Furthermore, we validate that our system can also adapt to goal-agnostic conditions with better performance. Note that our system can be transferred to the real world without any fine-tuning. Our code is available at https://github.com/xukechun/Efficient_goal-oriented_push-grasping_synergy.
ClutterDexGrasp: A Sim-to-Real System for General Dexterous Grasping in Cluttered Scenes
CFCS, School of Computer Science, Peking University(计算机学院,北京大学);PKU-AgiBot Lab(北京大学阿吉机器人实验室);PKU-PsiBot Lab(北京大学Psi机器人实验室);Princeton University(普林斯顿大学)
Grasping by Spiraling: Reproducing Elephant Movements with Rigid-Soft Robot Synergy
Advanced Robotics Centre, National University of Singapore(新加坡国立大学先进机器人中心);Integrative Sciences and Engineering Programme, National University of Singapore Graduate School(新加坡国立大学研究生院整合科学与工程计划);School of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China(中国科学技术大学计算机科学与技术学院);Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)(新加坡科技研究局高性能计算研究所)
ContactDexNet: Multi-fingered Robotic Hand Grasping in Cluttered Environments through Hand-object Contact Semantic Mapping
TAMS (Technical Aspects of Multimodal Systems), Department of Informatics, Universität Hamburg(乌尔姆大学信息学院技术多模态系统部门);Agile Robots AG(敏捷机器人公司);Technical University of Munich(慕尼黑技术大学)
AffordGrasp: In-Context Affordance Reasoning for Open-Vocabulary Task-Oriented Grasping in Clutter
Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院自动化研究所);Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen)(哈尔滨工业大学(深圳));Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence(北京人工智能研究院);Peking University(北京大学)
GPR: Grasp Pose Refinement Network for Cluttered Scenes
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);CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院脑科学与智能技术卓越创新中心)
Physical Human-Robot Interaction for Grasping in Augmented Reality via Rigid-Soft Robot Synergy
Advanced Robotics Centre (ARC), National University of Singapore (NUS)(先进机器人中心(ARC),新加坡国立大学);Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)(高性能计算研究所(IHPC),科技研究局(A*STAR));Chair of Cognitive Systems, Technical University of Munich (TUM)(认知系统教授职位,慕尼黑技术大学);Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Centre(新加坡-麻省理工联合研究技术中心);Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), Massachusetts Institute of Technology(计算机科学与人工智能实验室(CSAIL),麻省理工学院)
6-DoF Grasp Detection in Clutter with Enhanced Receptive Field and Graspable Balance Sampling
School of Intelligent Engineering and Automation, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications(北京邮电大学智能工程与自动化学院);Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院自动化研究所)
Region-aware Grasp Framework with Normalized Grasp Space for Efficient 6-DoF Grasping
Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University(清华大学深圳国际研究生院);Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University(清华大学电子工程系);Shanghai AI Laboratory(上海人工智能实验室)
Multi-Object RANSAC: Efficient Plane Clustering Method in a Clutter
Seoul National University(首尔大学);Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science, Seoul National University(首尔大学认知科学交叉项目);Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University(首尔大学计算机科学与工程系);AIIS, Seoul National University(首尔大学人工智能学院(AIIS))
本文提出专用于杂乱场景的平面聚类方法 Multi-Object RANSAC,通过 Deep Plane Clustering 模块生成并合并子平面,在机器人抓取实验中表现优于基线方法。
Learn to Grasp via Intention Discovery and its Application to Challenging Clutter
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology(香港科技大学);HKUST Shenzhen-Hong Kong Collaborative Innovation Research Institute(香港科技大学深港协同创新研究院);Monash University(莫纳什大学)