We consider the problem of generating free-form mobile manipulation instructions based on a target object image and receptacle image. Conventional image captioning models are not able to generate appropriate instructions because their architectures are typically optimized for single-image. In this study, we propose a model that handles both the target object and receptacle to generate free-form instruction sentences for mobile manipulation tasks. Moreover, we introduce a novel training method that effectively incorporates the scores from both learning-based and n-gram based automatic evaluation metrics as rewards. This method enables the model to learn the co-occurrence relationships between words and appropriate paraphrases. Results demonstrate that our proposed method outperforms baseline methods including representative multimodal large language models on standard automatic evaluation metrics. Moreover, physical experiments reveal that using our method to augment data on language instructions improves the performance of an existing multimodal language understanding model for mobile manipulation.
PAL Robotics S.L.(PAL机器人有限公司);Bielefeld University(比勒费尔德大学)
Despite many advances in service robotics, successful and secure object manipulation on mobile platforms is still a challenge. In order to come closer to human grasping performance, it is natural to provide robots with the same capability that humans have: the sense of touch. This abstract presents novel, tactile-equipped end-effectors for the service robot TIAGo that are currently being developed. Their primary goal is to improve reliability and success of mobile manipulation, but they also enable further research in related fields such as learning by human demonstration, object exploration a…
MoTo: A Zero-shot Plug-in Interaction-aware Navigation for General Mobile Manipulation
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications(北京邮电大学);Tsinghua University(清华大学);Beijing Key Laboratory of Embodied Intelligence Systems(北京市具身智能系统重点实验室);Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology(北京信息科学与技术国家研究中心);Nanyang Technological University(南洋理工大学)
The Omnid human-collaborative mobile manipulators are an experimental platform for testing control architectures for autonomous and human-collaborative multirobot mobile manipulation. An Omnid consists of a mecanum-wheel omnidirectional mobile base and a series-elastic Delta-type parallel manipulator, and it is a specific implementation of a broader class of mobile collaborative robots ("mocobots") suitable for safe human co-manipulation of delicate, flexible, and articulated payloads. Key features of mocobots include passive compliance, for the safety of the human and the payload, and high-fi…
Columbia University(哥伦比亚大学);U.S. Army Research Laboratory(美国陆军研究实验室);Robotics at Google(谷歌机器人部门)
While both navigation and manipulation are challenging topics in isolation, many tasks require the ability to both navigate and manipulate in concert. To this end, we propose a mobile manipulation system that leverages novel navigation and shape completion methods to manipulate an object with a mobile robot. Our system utilizes uncertainty in the initial estimation of a manipulation target to calculate a predicted next-best-view. Without the need of localization, the robot then uses the predicted panoramic view at the next-best-view location to navigate to the desired location, capture a secon…
Queensland University of Technology(昆士兰科技大学);LYRO Robotics(LYRO机器人公司)
We present a generalised architecture for reactive mobile manipulation while a robot's base is in motion toward the next objective in a high-level task. By performing tasks on-the-move, overall cycle time is reduced compared to methods where the base pauses during manipulation. Reactive control of the manipulator enables grasping objects with unpredictable motion while improving robustness against perception errors, environmental disturbances, and inaccurate robot control compared to open-loop, trajectory-based planning approaches. We present an example implementation of the architecture and i…
Stereo Multistage Spatial Attention for Real-Time Mobile Manipulation Under Visual Scale Variation and Disturbances
Department of Intermedia Art and Science, Waseda University(媒体艺术与科学系,早稻田大学);SB Intuitions Corp.(SB Intuitions公司);Research and Development Group, Hitachi, Ltd.(日立株式会社研发部);National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)(国家先进工业科学与技术研究院)
The FetchIt! Mobile Manipulation Challenge, held at the IEEE International Conference on Robots and Automation (ICRA) in May 2019, offered an environment with complex and integrated task sets, irregular objects, confined space, and machining, introducing new challenges in the mobile manipulation domain. Here we describe our efforts to address these challenges by demonstrating the assembly of a kit of mechanical parts in a caddy. In addition to implementation details, we examine the issues in this task set extensively, and we discuss our software architecture in the hope of providing a base for…
Robots are being increasingly used in the fight against highly-infectious diseases such as Ebola, MERS, and SARS-COV-2. Many of the robots that are being used employ ultraviolet lights mounted on a mobile base to inactivate the pathogens. However, these lights are often mounted in a fixed configuration and do not provide adequate decontamination of horizontal surfaces, which can be a major source of cross-contamination. In the paper, we describe the design, implementation, and testing of an Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation (UVGI) system implemented on a mobile manipulation robot. A human sup…
InCoM: Intent-Driven Perception and Structured Coordination for Mobile Manipulation
Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院自动化研究所);School of Advanced Interdisciplinary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院大学先进交叉学科学院);AnyverseDynamics
DynaMOMA: Instantaneous Prediction of Grasp Poses for Mobile Manipulation of Dynamic Objects
National University of Defense Technology(国防科技大学);CFCS, Peking University(北京大学前沿计算研究中心);Defense Innovation Institute, Academy of Military Sciences(军事科学院国防科技创新研究院);Wuhan University(武汉大学);Institute of AI for Industries, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院产业人工智能研究院)
Cracking Mobile Manipulation: From Failure Diagnosis to Agentic Robot System
School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Peking University(北京大学智能科学与技术学院);State Key Laboratory of General Artificial Intelligence, Peking University(北京大学通用人工智能国家重点实验室);Alibaba DAMO Academy, Alibaba Group(阿里巴巴集团达摩院);Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院自动化研究所);Tsinghua University(清华大学);University of Technology Sydney(悉尼科技大学);University of Liverpool(利物浦大学)
Morphologically Equivariant Flow Matching for Bimanual Mobile Manipulation
PEARL Lab, Dept. of Computer Science, TU Darmstadt, Germany(德累斯顿技术大学计算机科学系PEARL实验室);Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia(意大利技术研究院);Robotics Institute Germany(德国机器人研究所)
A particular type of assistive robots designed for physical interaction with objects could play an important role assisting with mobility and fall prevention in healthcare facilities. Autonomous mobile manipulation presents a hurdle prior to safely using robots in real life applications. In this article, we introduce a mobile manipulation framework based on model predictive control using learned dynamics models of objects. We focus on the specific problem of manipulating legged objects such as those commonly found in healthcare environments and personal dwellings (e.g. walkers, tables, chairs)…
Mobile manipulation tasks remain one of the critical challenges for the widespread adoption of autonomous robots in both service and industrial scenarios. While planning approaches are good at generating feasible whole-body robot trajectories, they struggle with dynamic environments as well as the incorporation of constraints given by the task and the environment. On the other hand, dynamic motion models in the action space struggle with generating kinematically feasible trajectories for mobile manipulation actions. We propose a deep reinforcement learning approach to learn feasible dynamic mo…
Learning from demonstrations is a promising paradigm for transferring knowledge to robots. However, learning mobile manipulation tasks directly from a human teacher is a complex problem as it requires learning models of both the overall task goal and of the underlying actions. Additionally, learning from a small number of demonstrations often introduces ambiguity with respect to the intention of the teacher, making it challenging to commit to one model for generalizing the task to new settings. In this paper, we present an approach to learning flexible mobile manipulation action models and tas…
EHC-MM: Embodied Holistic Control for Mobile Manipulation
Beijing Samsung Telecom R&D Center(北京三星通信技术研发中心);National Key Laboratory of General Artificial Intelligence(通用人工智能国家重点实验室);School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Peking University(北京大学智能科学与技术学院);PKU-WUHAN Institute for Artificial Intelligence(北京大学-武汉人工智能研究院);Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Peking University(北京大学人工智能研究院);Tsinghua University(清华大学);Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications(北京邮电大学)
University of Pennsylvania(宾夕法尼亚大学);Washington University in St. Louis(圣路易斯华盛顿大学)
In this paper we address mobile manipulation planning problems in the presence of sensing and environmental uncertainty. In particular, we consider mobile sensing manipulators operating in environments with unknown geometry and uncertain movable objects, while being responsible for accomplishing tasks requiring grasping and releasing objects in a logical fashion. Existing algorithms either do not scale well or neglect sensing and/or environmental uncertainty. To face these challenges, we propose a hybrid control architecture, where a symbolic controller generates high-level manipulation comman…
Robots that solve complex tasks in environments too dangerous for humans to enter are desperately needed, e.g. for search and rescue applications. We describe our mobile manipulation robot Momaro, with which we participated successfully in the DARPA Robotics Challenge. It features a unique locomotion design with four legs ending in steerable wheels, which allows it both to drive omnidirectionally and to step over obstacles or climb. Furthermore, we present advanced communication and teleoperation approaches, which include immersive 3D visualization, and 6D tracking of operator head and arm mot…
We present the design and implementation of a taskable reactive mobile manipulation system. In contrary to related work, we treat the arm and base degrees of freedom as a holistic structure which greatly improves the speed and fluidity of the resulting motion. At the core of this approach is a robust and reactive motion controller which can achieve a desired end-effector pose, while avoiding joint position and velocity limits, and ensuring the mobile manipulator is manoeuvrable throughout the trajectory. This can support sensor-based behaviours such as closed-loop visual grasping. As no planni…
University of Michigan(密歇根大学);ETH Zürich(苏黎世联邦理工学院)
Manipulators can be added to legged robots, allowing them to interact with and change their environment. Legged mobile manipulation planners must consider how contact forces generated by these manipulators affect the system. Current planning strategies either treat these forces as immutable during planning or are unable to optimize over these contact forces while operating in real-time. This paper presents the Stability and Task Oriented Receding-Horizon Motion and Manipulation Autonomous Planner (STORMMAP) that is able to generate continuous plans for the robot's motion and manipulation force…
Complex manipulation tasks, such as rearrangement planning of numerous objects, are combinatorially hard problems. Existing algorithms either do not scale well or assume a great deal of prior knowledge about the environment, and few offer any rigorous guarantees. In this paper, we propose a novel hybrid control architecture for achieving such tasks with mobile manipulators. On the discrete side, we enrich a temporal logic specification with mobile manipulation primitives such as moving to a point, and grasping or moving an object. Such specifications are translated to an automaton representati…
Mobile manipulation planning commonly adopts a decoupled approach that performs planning separately on the base and the manipulator. While this approach is fast, it can generate sub-optimal paths. Another direction is a coupled approach jointly adjusting the base and manipulator in a high-dimensional configuration space. This coupled approach addresses sub-optimality and incompleteness of the decoupled approach, but has not been widely used due to its excessive computational overhead. Given this trade-off space, we present a simple, yet effective mobile manipulation sampling method, harmonious…