Bunny-VisionPro: Real-Time Bimanual Dexterous Teleoperation for Imitation Learning

Fuente: arXiv
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ding, Runyu, Qin, Yuzhe, Zhu, Jiyue, Jia, Chengzhe, Yang, Shiqi, Yang, Ruihan, Qi, Xiaojuan, Wang, Xiaolong
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
Subjects:
Online Access:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866914857557688320
author Ding, Runyu
Qin, Yuzhe
Zhu, Jiyue
Jia, Chengzhe
Yang, Shiqi
Yang, Ruihan
Qi, Xiaojuan
Wang, Xiaolong
author_facet Ding, Runyu
Qin, Yuzhe
Zhu, Jiyue
Jia, Chengzhe
Yang, Shiqi
Yang, Ruihan
Qi, Xiaojuan
Wang, Xiaolong
contents Teleoperation is a crucial tool for collecting human demonstrations, but controlling robots with bimanual dexterous hands remains a challenge. Existing teleoperation systems struggle to handle the complexity of coordinating two hands for intricate manipulations. We introduce Bunny-VisionPro, a real-time bimanual dexterous teleoperation system that leverages a VR headset. Unlike previous vision-based teleoperation systems, we design novel low-cost devices to provide haptic feedback to the operator, enhancing immersion. Our system prioritizes safety by incorporating collision and singularity avoidance while maintaining real-time performance through innovative designs. Bunny-VisionPro outperforms prior systems on a standard task suite, achieving higher success rates and reduced task completion times. Moreover, the high-quality teleoperation demonstrations improve downstream imitation learning performance, leading to better generalizability. Notably, Bunny-VisionPro enables imitation learning with challenging multi-stage, long-horizon dexterous manipulation tasks, which have rarely been addressed in previous work. Our system's ability to handle bimanual manipulations while prioritizing safety and real-time performance makes it a powerful tool for advancing dexterous manipulation and imitation learning.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2407_03162
institution arXiv
publishDate 2024
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Bunny-VisionPro: Real-Time Bimanual Dexterous Teleoperation for Imitation Learning
Ding, Runyu
Qin, Yuzhe
Zhu, Jiyue
Jia, Chengzhe
Yang, Shiqi
Yang, Ruihan
Qi, Xiaojuan
Wang, Xiaolong
Robotics
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Teleoperation is a crucial tool for collecting human demonstrations, but controlling robots with bimanual dexterous hands remains a challenge. Existing teleoperation systems struggle to handle the complexity of coordinating two hands for intricate manipulations. We introduce Bunny-VisionPro, a real-time bimanual dexterous teleoperation system that leverages a VR headset. Unlike previous vision-based teleoperation systems, we design novel low-cost devices to provide haptic feedback to the operator, enhancing immersion. Our system prioritizes safety by incorporating collision and singularity avoidance while maintaining real-time performance through innovative designs. Bunny-VisionPro outperforms prior systems on a standard task suite, achieving higher success rates and reduced task completion times. Moreover, the high-quality teleoperation demonstrations improve downstream imitation learning performance, leading to better generalizability. Notably, Bunny-VisionPro enables imitation learning with challenging multi-stage, long-horizon dexterous manipulation tasks, which have rarely been addressed in previous work. Our system's ability to handle bimanual manipulations while prioritizing safety and real-time performance makes it a powerful tool for advancing dexterous manipulation and imitation learning.
title Bunny-VisionPro: Real-Time Bimanual Dexterous Teleoperation for Imitation Learning
topic Robotics
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.03162