RoboPack: Learning Tactile-Informed Dynamics Models for Dense Packing

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Autori principali: Ai, Bo, Tian, Stephen, Shi, Haochen, Wang, Yixuan, Tan, Cheston, Li, Yunzhu, Wu, Jiajun
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author Ai, Bo
Tian, Stephen
Shi, Haochen
Wang, Yixuan
Tan, Cheston
Li, Yunzhu
Wu, Jiajun
author_facet Ai, Bo
Tian, Stephen
Shi, Haochen
Wang, Yixuan
Tan, Cheston
Li, Yunzhu
Wu, Jiajun
contents Tactile feedback is critical for understanding the dynamics of both rigid and deformable objects in many manipulation tasks, such as non-prehensile manipulation and dense packing. We introduce an approach that combines visual and tactile sensing for robotic manipulation by learning a neural, tactile-informed dynamics model. Our proposed framework, RoboPack, employs a recurrent graph neural network to estimate object states, including particles and object-level latent physics information, from historical visuo-tactile observations and to perform future state predictions. Our tactile-informed dynamics model, learned from real-world data, can solve downstream robotics tasks with model-predictive control. We demonstrate our approach on a real robot equipped with a compliant Soft-Bubble tactile sensor on non-prehensile manipulation and dense packing tasks, where the robot must infer the physics properties of objects from direct and indirect interactions. Trained on only an average of 30 minutes of real-world interaction data per task, our model can perform online adaptation and make touch-informed predictions. Through extensive evaluations in both long-horizon dynamics prediction and real-world manipulation, our method demonstrates superior effectiveness compared to previous learning-based and physics-based simulation systems.
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spellingShingle RoboPack: Learning Tactile-Informed Dynamics Models for Dense Packing
Ai, Bo
Tian, Stephen
Shi, Haochen
Wang, Yixuan
Tan, Cheston
Li, Yunzhu
Wu, Jiajun
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
I.2.9; I.2.6; I.2.10
Tactile feedback is critical for understanding the dynamics of both rigid and deformable objects in many manipulation tasks, such as non-prehensile manipulation and dense packing. We introduce an approach that combines visual and tactile sensing for robotic manipulation by learning a neural, tactile-informed dynamics model. Our proposed framework, RoboPack, employs a recurrent graph neural network to estimate object states, including particles and object-level latent physics information, from historical visuo-tactile observations and to perform future state predictions. Our tactile-informed dynamics model, learned from real-world data, can solve downstream robotics tasks with model-predictive control. We demonstrate our approach on a real robot equipped with a compliant Soft-Bubble tactile sensor on non-prehensile manipulation and dense packing tasks, where the robot must infer the physics properties of objects from direct and indirect interactions. Trained on only an average of 30 minutes of real-world interaction data per task, our model can perform online adaptation and make touch-informed predictions. Through extensive evaluations in both long-horizon dynamics prediction and real-world manipulation, our method demonstrates superior effectiveness compared to previous learning-based and physics-based simulation systems.
title RoboPack: Learning Tactile-Informed Dynamics Models for Dense Packing
topic Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
I.2.9; I.2.6; I.2.10
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.01418