Generalizing Object-Centric Task-Axes Controllers using Keypoints

March 2021

Generalizing Object-Centric Task-Axes Controllers using Keypoints

Conference Paper
Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Abstract:

To perform manipulation tasks in the real world, robots need to operate on objects with various shapes, sizes and without access to geometric models. To achieve this it is often infeasible to train monolithic neural network policies across such large variations in object properties. Towards this generalization challenge, we propose to learn modular task policies which compose object-centric task-axes controllers. These task-axes controllers are parameterized by properties associated with underlying objects in the scene. We infer these controller parameters directly from visual input using multi- view dense correspondence learning. Our overall approach provides a simple and yet powerful framework for learning manipulation tasks. We empirically evaluate our approach on 3 different manipulation tasks and show its ability to generalize to large variance in object size, shape and geometry.
@conference{Sharma-2021-128854,
author = {Mohit Sharma And Oliver Kroemer},
title = {Generalizing Object-Centric Task-Axes Controllers using Keypoints},
booktitle = {Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation},
year = {2021},
month = {March},
}
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