In this paper, we present a novel approach for learning bimanual manipulation actions from human demonstration by extracting spatial constraints between affordance regions, termed affordance constraints, of the objects involved. Affordance regions are defined as object parts that provide interaction possibilities to an agent. For example, the bottom of a bottle affords the object to be placed on a surface, while its spout affords the contained liquid to be poured. We propose a novel approach to learn changes of affordance constraints in human demonstration to construct spatial bimanual action models representing object interactions. To exploit the information encoded in these spatial bimanual action models, we formulate an optimization problem to determine optimal object configurations across multiple execution keypoints while taking into account the initial scene, the learned affordance constraints, and the robot's kinematics. We evaluate the approach in simulation with two example tasks (pouring drinks and rolling dough) and compare three different definitions of affordance constraints: (i) component-wise distances between affordance regions in Cartesian space, (ii) component-wise distances between affordance regions in cylindrical space, and (iii) degrees of satisfaction of manually defined symbolic spatial affordance constraints.
Task-Aware Bimanual Affordance Prediction via VLM-Guided Semantic-Geometric Reasoning
Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Darmstadt(达姆施塔特工业大学计算机科学系);German Research Center for AI (DFKI)(德国人工智能研究中心);Centre for Cognitive Science, Technical University of Darmstadt(达姆施塔特工业大学认知科学中心);Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence (Hessian.AI), Darmstadt(黑森州人工智能中心);Robotics Institute Germany (RIG)(德国机器人研究所)
Recognizing human actions is a vital task for a humanoid robot, especially in domains like programming by demonstration. Previous approaches on action recognition primarily focused on the overall prevalent action being executed, but we argue that bimanual human motion cannot always be described sufficiently with a single action label. We present a system for frame-wise action classification and segmentation in bimanual human demonstrations. The system extracts symbolic spatial object relations from raw RGB-D video data captured from the robot's point of view in order to build graph-based scene…
DexRoam: Learning Mobile Bimanual Dexterous Manipulation from Egocentric Whole-Body Human Demonstrations
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology(香港科技大学);Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence(北京人工智能研究院);State Key Laboratory of Multimedia Information Processing, School of Computer Science, Peking University(北京大学计算机学院多媒体信息处理国家重点实验室);Beihang University(北京航空航天大学);Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院自动化研究所)
PA-BiCoop: A Primary-Auxiliary Cooperative Framework for General Bimanual Manipulation
SGIT AI Lab, State Grid Corporation of China(国家电网公司SGIT人工智能实验室);The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Guangzhou(香港科技大学(广州));Baidu Research, Beijing, China(百度研究院);Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou(浙江工业大学)
School of CS & AI, Arizona State University(亚利桑那州立大学计算机科学与人工智能学院)
Conventional works that learn grasping affordance from demonstrations need to explicitly predict grasping configurations, such as gripper approaching angles or grasping preshapes. Classic motion planners could then sample trajectories by using such predicted configurations. In this work, our goal is instead to fill the gap between affordance discovery and affordance-based policy learning by integrating the two objectives in an end-to-end imitation learning framework based on deep neural networks. From a psychological perspective, there is a close association between attention and affordance. T…
RoboPCA: Pose-centered Affordance Learning from Human Demonstrations for Robot Manipulation
Key Laboratory of AI Safety of CAS, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院人工智能安全重点实验室、计算技术研究所);University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院大学)
UniBiDex: A Unified Teleoperation Framework for Robotic Bimanual Dexterous Manipulation
Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong(香港大学计算机科学系);Dongguan Key Laboratory of Intelligent Equipment and Smart Industry, School of Advanced Engineering, The Great Bay University(东莞智能装备与智能制造重点实验室,高级工程学院,大湾区大学);Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University(香港理工大学机械工程系);Guangdong Academy of Sciences(广东省科学院)
ManiDP: Manipulability-Aware Diffusion Policy for Posture-Dependent Bimanual Manipulation
Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, T-Stone Robotics Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong(机械与自动化工程系、T-Stone机器人研究所、香港中文大学);Hong Kong Center for Logistics Robotics(香港物流机器人中心);Department of Technological Sciences, Wuhan University(技术科学系、武汉大学);Idiap Research Institute(Idiap研究所);Department of Advanced Robotics, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia(先进机器人系、意大利Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia)
BiRoAD: Learning Shared and Role-Adaptive Representations for Bimanual Manipulation
Peking University(北京大学);PrimeBot Research Institute(PrimeBot研究院);Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)(香港科技大学(广州));UC Berkeley(加州大学伯克利分校)
Ag2x2: Robust Agent-Agnostic Visual Representations for Zero-Shot Bimanual Manipulation
National Key Laboratory of General Artificial Intelligence, Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence (BIGAI)(国家关键人工智能实验室,北京通用人工智能研究院(BIGAI));School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University(北京大学心理与认知科学学院);Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Peking University(北京大学人工智能研究院);Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking University(北京行为与心理健康重点实验室,北京大学);Yuanpei College, Peking University(北京大学元培学院);Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge(剑桥大学计算机科学与技术系);Embodied Intelligence Lab, PKU-Wuhan Institute for Artificial Intelligence(具身智能实验室,北京大学-武汉人工智能研究院)
TAMEn: Tactile-Aware Manipulation Engine for Closed-Loop Data Collection in Contact-Rich Tasks
Fudan University(复旦大学);Shanghai Innovation Institute(上海创新研究院);OpenDriveLab at The University of Hong Kong(香港大学OpenDriveLab);Shanghai Jiao Tong University(上海交通大学);East China University of Science and Technology(华东理工大学)
Dexterous manipulation with a multi-finger hand is one of the most challenging problems in robotics. While recent progress in imitation learning has largely improved the sample efficiency compared to Reinforcement Learning, the learned policy can hardly generalize to manipulate novel objects, given limited expert demonstrations. In this paper, we propose to learn dexterous manipulation using large-scale demonstrations with diverse 3D objects in a category, which are generated from a human grasp affordance model. This generalizes the policy to novel object instances within the same category. To…
HumanoidGen: Data Generation for Bimanual Dexterous Manipulation via LLM Reasoning
Fudan University(复旦大学);Institute of Artificial Intelligence (TeleAI), China Telecom(人工智能研究所(TeleAI),中国电信);University of Science and Technology of China(中国科学技术大学);East China University of Science and Technology(东华大学)
AnyBimanual: Transferring Unimanual Policy for General Bimanual Manipulation
Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University(清华大学深圳国际研究生院);School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University(南洋理工大学电气与电子工程学院)
Sim-and-Human Co-training for Data-Efficient and Scene-Generalizable Bimanual Manipulation
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China(电子科学与技术大学);Southwest Jiaotong University(西南交通大学);Tongji University(同济大学);Shanghai Innovation Institute(上海创新研究院)
ALPHA-$α$ and Bi-ACT Are All You Need: Importance of Position and Force Information/Control for Imitation Learning of Unimanual and Bimanual Robotic Manipulation with Low-Cost System
Osaka University(大阪大学);Graduate School of Information Science and Technology of Osaka University(大阪大学信息科学与技术研究生院);School of Engineering Science, Osaka University(大阪大学工程科学学院)