Continual Robot Skill and Task Learning via Dialogue

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Hauptverfasser: Gu, Weiwei, Kondepudi, Suresh, Gupta, Anmol, Huang, Lixiao, Gopalan, Nakul
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author Gu, Weiwei
Kondepudi, Suresh
Gupta, Anmol
Huang, Lixiao
Gopalan, Nakul
author_facet Gu, Weiwei
Kondepudi, Suresh
Gupta, Anmol
Huang, Lixiao
Gopalan, Nakul
contents Interactive robot learning is a challenging problem as the robot is present with human users who expect the robot to learn novel skills to solve novel tasks perpetually with sample efficiency. In this work we present a framework for robots to continually learn tasks and visuo-motor skills and query for novel skills via dialog interactions with human users. Our robot agent maintains a skill library, and uses an existing LLM to perform grounded dialog interactions to query unknown skills from real human users. We developed a novel visual-motor control policy Action Chunking Transformer with Low Rank Adaptation (ACT-LoRA) that can continually learn novel skills using only a few demonstrations which is critical in human-robot interaction scenarios. The paper has twin goals: Firstly to demonstrate better continual learning in simulation; and secondly, to demonstrate the use of our dialog based learning framework in a realistic human-robot interaction use case. Our ACT-LoRA policy consistently outperforms a GMM-LoRA baseline on multiple continual learning simulation benchmarks by achieving > 300% improvements on novel skills, while achieving comparable performance in existing skills. Moreover, with our IRB approved human-subjects study we demonstrate that our dialog based continual learning framework allows users to teach robots cooking skills successfully (100%) while spending a higher ratio of time on finishing an auxiliary distraction tasks in the test phase of the study compared to a non-learning language based agent (p < 0.001).
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spellingShingle Continual Robot Skill and Task Learning via Dialogue
Gu, Weiwei
Kondepudi, Suresh
Gupta, Anmol
Huang, Lixiao
Gopalan, Nakul
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Interactive robot learning is a challenging problem as the robot is present with human users who expect the robot to learn novel skills to solve novel tasks perpetually with sample efficiency. In this work we present a framework for robots to continually learn tasks and visuo-motor skills and query for novel skills via dialog interactions with human users. Our robot agent maintains a skill library, and uses an existing LLM to perform grounded dialog interactions to query unknown skills from real human users. We developed a novel visual-motor control policy Action Chunking Transformer with Low Rank Adaptation (ACT-LoRA) that can continually learn novel skills using only a few demonstrations which is critical in human-robot interaction scenarios. The paper has twin goals: Firstly to demonstrate better continual learning in simulation; and secondly, to demonstrate the use of our dialog based learning framework in a realistic human-robot interaction use case. Our ACT-LoRA policy consistently outperforms a GMM-LoRA baseline on multiple continual learning simulation benchmarks by achieving > 300% improvements on novel skills, while achieving comparable performance in existing skills. Moreover, with our IRB approved human-subjects study we demonstrate that our dialog based continual learning framework allows users to teach robots cooking skills successfully (100%) while spending a higher ratio of time on finishing an auxiliary distraction tasks in the test phase of the study compared to a non-learning language based agent (p < 0.001).
title Continual Robot Skill and Task Learning via Dialogue
topic Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.03166