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Main Authors: Ishida, Yutaro, Noguchi, Yuki, Kanai, Takayuki, Shintani, Kazuhiro, Bito, Hiroshi
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.01292
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author Ishida, Yutaro
Noguchi, Yuki
Kanai, Takayuki
Shintani, Kazuhiro
Bito, Hiroshi
author_facet Ishida, Yutaro
Noguchi, Yuki
Kanai, Takayuki
Shintani, Kazuhiro
Bito, Hiroshi
contents We study how to generalize the visuomotor policy of a mobile manipulator from the perspective of visual observations. The mobile manipulator is prone to occlusion owing to its own body when only a single viewpoint is employed and a significant domain shift when deployed in diverse situations. However, to the best of the authors' knowledge, no study has been able to solve occlusion and domain shift simultaneously and propose a robust policy. In this paper, we propose a robust imitation learning method for mobile manipulators that focuses on task-related viewpoints and their spatial regions when observing multiple viewpoints. The multiple viewpoint policy includes attention mechanism, which is learned with an augmented dataset, and brings optimal viewpoints and robust visual embedding against occlusion and domain shift. Comparison of our results for different tasks and environments with those of previous studies revealed that our proposed method improves the success rate by up to 29.3 points. We also conduct ablation studies using our proposed method. Learning task-related viewpoints from the multiple viewpoints dataset increases robustness to occlusion than using a uniquely defined viewpoint. Focusing on task-related regions contributes to up to a 33.3-point improvement in the success rate against domain shift.
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spellingShingle Robust Imitation Learning for Mobile Manipulator Focusing on Task-Related Viewpoints and Regions
Ishida, Yutaro
Noguchi, Yuki
Kanai, Takayuki
Shintani, Kazuhiro
Bito, Hiroshi
Robotics
We study how to generalize the visuomotor policy of a mobile manipulator from the perspective of visual observations. The mobile manipulator is prone to occlusion owing to its own body when only a single viewpoint is employed and a significant domain shift when deployed in diverse situations. However, to the best of the authors' knowledge, no study has been able to solve occlusion and domain shift simultaneously and propose a robust policy. In this paper, we propose a robust imitation learning method for mobile manipulators that focuses on task-related viewpoints and their spatial regions when observing multiple viewpoints. The multiple viewpoint policy includes attention mechanism, which is learned with an augmented dataset, and brings optimal viewpoints and robust visual embedding against occlusion and domain shift. Comparison of our results for different tasks and environments with those of previous studies revealed that our proposed method improves the success rate by up to 29.3 points. We also conduct ablation studies using our proposed method. Learning task-related viewpoints from the multiple viewpoints dataset increases robustness to occlusion than using a uniquely defined viewpoint. Focusing on task-related regions contributes to up to a 33.3-point improvement in the success rate against domain shift.
title Robust Imitation Learning for Mobile Manipulator Focusing on Task-Related Viewpoints and Regions
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.01292