Correspondence learning between morphologically different robots via task demonstrations

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Main Authors: Aktas, Hakan, Nagai, Yukie, Asada, Minoru, Oztop, Erhan, Ugur, Emre
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author Aktas, Hakan
Nagai, Yukie
Asada, Minoru
Oztop, Erhan
Ugur, Emre
author_facet Aktas, Hakan
Nagai, Yukie
Asada, Minoru
Oztop, Erhan
Ugur, Emre
contents We observe a large variety of robots in terms of their bodies, sensors, and actuators. Given the commonalities in the skill sets, teaching each skill to each different robot independently is inefficient and not scalable when the large variety in the robotic landscape is considered. If we can learn the correspondences between the sensorimotor spaces of different robots, we can expect a skill that is learned in one robot can be more directly and easily transferred to other robots. In this paper, we propose a method to learn correspondences among two or more robots that may have different morphologies. To be specific, besides robots with similar morphologies with different degrees of freedom, we show that a fixed-based manipulator robot with joint control and a differential drive mobile robot can be addressed within the proposed framework. To set up the correspondence among the robots considered, an initial base task is demonstrated to the robots to achieve the same goal. Then, a common latent representation is learned along with the individual robot policies for achieving the goal. After the initial learning stage, the observation of a new task execution by one robot becomes sufficient to generate a latent space representation pertaining to the other robots to achieve the same task. We verified our system in a set of experiments where the correspondence between robots is learned (1) when the robots need to follow the same paths to achieve the same task, (2) when the robots need to follow different trajectories to achieve the same task, and (3) when complexities of the required sensorimotor trajectories are different for the robots. We also provide a proof-of-the-concept realization of correspondence learning between a real manipulator robot and a simulated mobile robot.
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spellingShingle Correspondence learning between morphologically different robots via task demonstrations
Aktas, Hakan
Nagai, Yukie
Asada, Minoru
Oztop, Erhan
Ugur, Emre
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
We observe a large variety of robots in terms of their bodies, sensors, and actuators. Given the commonalities in the skill sets, teaching each skill to each different robot independently is inefficient and not scalable when the large variety in the robotic landscape is considered. If we can learn the correspondences between the sensorimotor spaces of different robots, we can expect a skill that is learned in one robot can be more directly and easily transferred to other robots. In this paper, we propose a method to learn correspondences among two or more robots that may have different morphologies. To be specific, besides robots with similar morphologies with different degrees of freedom, we show that a fixed-based manipulator robot with joint control and a differential drive mobile robot can be addressed within the proposed framework. To set up the correspondence among the robots considered, an initial base task is demonstrated to the robots to achieve the same goal. Then, a common latent representation is learned along with the individual robot policies for achieving the goal. After the initial learning stage, the observation of a new task execution by one robot becomes sufficient to generate a latent space representation pertaining to the other robots to achieve the same task. We verified our system in a set of experiments where the correspondence between robots is learned (1) when the robots need to follow the same paths to achieve the same task, (2) when the robots need to follow different trajectories to achieve the same task, and (3) when complexities of the required sensorimotor trajectories are different for the robots. We also provide a proof-of-the-concept realization of correspondence learning between a real manipulator robot and a simulated mobile robot.
title Correspondence learning between morphologically different robots via task demonstrations
topic Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.13458