Riemannian Flow Matching Policy for Robot Motion Learning

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Auteurs principaux: Braun, Max, Jaquier, Noémie, Rozo, Leonel, Asfour, Tamim
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author Braun, Max
Jaquier, Noémie
Rozo, Leonel
Asfour, Tamim
author_facet Braun, Max
Jaquier, Noémie
Rozo, Leonel
Asfour, Tamim
contents We introduce Riemannian Flow Matching Policies (RFMP), a novel model for learning and synthesizing robot visuomotor policies. RFMP leverages the efficient training and inference capabilities of flow matching methods. By design, RFMP inherits the strengths of flow matching: the ability to encode high-dimensional multimodal distributions, commonly encountered in robotic tasks, and a very simple and fast inference process. We demonstrate the applicability of RFMP to both state-based and vision-conditioned robot motion policies. Notably, as the robot state resides on a Riemannian manifold, RFMP inherently incorporates geometric awareness, which is crucial for realistic robotic tasks. To evaluate RFMP, we conduct two proof-of-concept experiments, comparing its performance against Diffusion Policies. Although both approaches successfully learn the considered tasks, our results show that RFMP provides smoother action trajectories with significantly lower inference times.
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spellingShingle Riemannian Flow Matching Policy for Robot Motion Learning
Braun, Max
Jaquier, Noémie
Rozo, Leonel
Asfour, Tamim
Robotics
Machine Learning
We introduce Riemannian Flow Matching Policies (RFMP), a novel model for learning and synthesizing robot visuomotor policies. RFMP leverages the efficient training and inference capabilities of flow matching methods. By design, RFMP inherits the strengths of flow matching: the ability to encode high-dimensional multimodal distributions, commonly encountered in robotic tasks, and a very simple and fast inference process. We demonstrate the applicability of RFMP to both state-based and vision-conditioned robot motion policies. Notably, as the robot state resides on a Riemannian manifold, RFMP inherently incorporates geometric awareness, which is crucial for realistic robotic tasks. To evaluate RFMP, we conduct two proof-of-concept experiments, comparing its performance against Diffusion Policies. Although both approaches successfully learn the considered tasks, our results show that RFMP provides smoother action trajectories with significantly lower inference times.
title Riemannian Flow Matching Policy for Robot Motion Learning
topic Robotics
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.10672