ArrayBot: Reinforcement Learning for Generalizable Distributed Manipulation through Touch

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Autores principales: Xue, Zhengrong, Zhang, Han, Cheng, Jingwen, He, Zhengmao, Ju, Yuanchen, Lin, Changyi, Zhang, Gu, Xu, Huazhe
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Publicado: 2023
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author Xue, Zhengrong
Zhang, Han
Cheng, Jingwen
He, Zhengmao
Ju, Yuanchen
Lin, Changyi
Zhang, Gu
Xu, Huazhe
author_facet Xue, Zhengrong
Zhang, Han
Cheng, Jingwen
He, Zhengmao
Ju, Yuanchen
Lin, Changyi
Zhang, Gu
Xu, Huazhe
contents We present ArrayBot, a distributed manipulation system consisting of a $16 \times 16$ array of vertically sliding pillars integrated with tactile sensors, which can simultaneously support, perceive, and manipulate the tabletop objects. Towards generalizable distributed manipulation, we leverage reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms for the automatic discovery of control policies. In the face of the massively redundant actions, we propose to reshape the action space by considering the spatially local action patch and the low-frequency actions in the frequency domain. With this reshaped action space, we train RL agents that can relocate diverse objects through tactile observations only. Surprisingly, we find that the discovered policy can not only generalize to unseen object shapes in the simulator but also transfer to the physical robot without any domain randomization. Leveraging the deployed policy, we present abundant real-world manipulation tasks, illustrating the vast potential of RL on ArrayBot for distributed manipulation.
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spellingShingle ArrayBot: Reinforcement Learning for Generalizable Distributed Manipulation through Touch
Xue, Zhengrong
Zhang, Han
Cheng, Jingwen
He, Zhengmao
Ju, Yuanchen
Lin, Changyi
Zhang, Gu
Xu, Huazhe
Robotics
Machine Learning
We present ArrayBot, a distributed manipulation system consisting of a $16 \times 16$ array of vertically sliding pillars integrated with tactile sensors, which can simultaneously support, perceive, and manipulate the tabletop objects. Towards generalizable distributed manipulation, we leverage reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms for the automatic discovery of control policies. In the face of the massively redundant actions, we propose to reshape the action space by considering the spatially local action patch and the low-frequency actions in the frequency domain. With this reshaped action space, we train RL agents that can relocate diverse objects through tactile observations only. Surprisingly, we find that the discovered policy can not only generalize to unseen object shapes in the simulator but also transfer to the physical robot without any domain randomization. Leveraging the deployed policy, we present abundant real-world manipulation tasks, illustrating the vast potential of RL on ArrayBot for distributed manipulation.
title ArrayBot: Reinforcement Learning for Generalizable Distributed Manipulation through Touch
topic Robotics
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.16857