VoxAct-B: Voxel-Based Acting and Stabilizing Policy for Bimanual Manipulation

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Autores principales: Liu, I-Chun Arthur, He, Sicheng, Seita, Daniel, Sukhatme, Gaurav
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author Liu, I-Chun Arthur
He, Sicheng
Seita, Daniel
Sukhatme, Gaurav
author_facet Liu, I-Chun Arthur
He, Sicheng
Seita, Daniel
Sukhatme, Gaurav
contents Bimanual manipulation is critical to many robotics applications. In contrast to single-arm manipulation, bimanual manipulation tasks are challenging due to higher-dimensional action spaces. Prior works leverage large amounts of data and primitive actions to address this problem, but may suffer from sample inefficiency and limited generalization across various tasks. To this end, we propose VoxAct-B, a language-conditioned, voxel-based method that leverages Vision Language Models (VLMs) to prioritize key regions within the scene and reconstruct a voxel grid. We provide this voxel grid to our bimanual manipulation policy to learn acting and stabilizing actions. This approach enables more efficient policy learning from voxels and is generalizable to different tasks. In simulation, we show that VoxAct-B outperforms strong baselines on fine-grained bimanual manipulation tasks. Furthermore, we demonstrate VoxAct-B on real-world $\texttt{Open Drawer}$ and $\texttt{Open Jar}$ tasks using two UR5s. Code, data, and videos are available at https://voxact-b.github.io.
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spellingShingle VoxAct-B: Voxel-Based Acting and Stabilizing Policy for Bimanual Manipulation
Liu, I-Chun Arthur
He, Sicheng
Seita, Daniel
Sukhatme, Gaurav
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Bimanual manipulation is critical to many robotics applications. In contrast to single-arm manipulation, bimanual manipulation tasks are challenging due to higher-dimensional action spaces. Prior works leverage large amounts of data and primitive actions to address this problem, but may suffer from sample inefficiency and limited generalization across various tasks. To this end, we propose VoxAct-B, a language-conditioned, voxel-based method that leverages Vision Language Models (VLMs) to prioritize key regions within the scene and reconstruct a voxel grid. We provide this voxel grid to our bimanual manipulation policy to learn acting and stabilizing actions. This approach enables more efficient policy learning from voxels and is generalizable to different tasks. In simulation, we show that VoxAct-B outperforms strong baselines on fine-grained bimanual manipulation tasks. Furthermore, we demonstrate VoxAct-B on real-world $\texttt{Open Drawer}$ and $\texttt{Open Jar}$ tasks using two UR5s. Code, data, and videos are available at https://voxact-b.github.io.
title VoxAct-B: Voxel-Based Acting and Stabilizing Policy for Bimanual Manipulation
topic Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.04152