Haptic-ACT: Bridging Human Intuition with Compliant Robotic Manipulation via Immersive VR

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Autores principales: Li, Kelin, Wagh, Shubham M, Sharma, Nitish, Bhadani, Saksham, Chen, Wei, Liu, Chang, Kormushev, Petar
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author Li, Kelin
Wagh, Shubham M
Sharma, Nitish
Bhadani, Saksham
Chen, Wei
Liu, Chang
Kormushev, Petar
author_facet Li, Kelin
Wagh, Shubham M
Sharma, Nitish
Bhadani, Saksham
Chen, Wei
Liu, Chang
Kormushev, Petar
contents Robotic manipulation is essential for the widespread adoption of robots in industrial and home settings and has long been a focus within the robotics community. Advances in artificial intelligence have introduced promising learning-based methods to address this challenge, with imitation learning emerging as particularly effective. However, efficiently acquiring high-quality demonstrations remains a challenge. In this work, we introduce an immersive VR-based teleoperation setup designed to collect demonstrations from a remote human user. We also propose an imitation learning framework called Haptic Action Chunking with Transformers (Haptic-ACT). To evaluate the platform, we conducted a pick-and-place task and collected 50 demonstration episodes. Results indicate that the immersive VR platform significantly reduces demonstrator fingertip forces compared to systems without haptic feedback, enabling more delicate manipulation. Additionally, evaluations of the Haptic-ACT framework in both the MuJoCo simulator and on a real robot demonstrate its effectiveness in teaching robots more compliant manipulation compared to the original ACT. Additional materials are available at https://sites.google.com/view/hapticact.
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spellingShingle Haptic-ACT: Bridging Human Intuition with Compliant Robotic Manipulation via Immersive VR
Li, Kelin
Wagh, Shubham M
Sharma, Nitish
Bhadani, Saksham
Chen, Wei
Liu, Chang
Kormushev, Petar
Robotics
Robotic manipulation is essential for the widespread adoption of robots in industrial and home settings and has long been a focus within the robotics community. Advances in artificial intelligence have introduced promising learning-based methods to address this challenge, with imitation learning emerging as particularly effective. However, efficiently acquiring high-quality demonstrations remains a challenge. In this work, we introduce an immersive VR-based teleoperation setup designed to collect demonstrations from a remote human user. We also propose an imitation learning framework called Haptic Action Chunking with Transformers (Haptic-ACT). To evaluate the platform, we conducted a pick-and-place task and collected 50 demonstration episodes. Results indicate that the immersive VR platform significantly reduces demonstrator fingertip forces compared to systems without haptic feedback, enabling more delicate manipulation. Additionally, evaluations of the Haptic-ACT framework in both the MuJoCo simulator and on a real robot demonstrate its effectiveness in teaching robots more compliant manipulation compared to the original ACT. Additional materials are available at https://sites.google.com/view/hapticact.
title Haptic-ACT: Bridging Human Intuition with Compliant Robotic Manipulation via Immersive VR
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.11925