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| Online Access: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.07169 |
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| author | Li, Zhuoling Ren, Liangliang Yang, Jinrong Zhao, Yong Wu, Xiaoyang Xu, Zhenhua Bai, Xiang Zhao, Hengshuang |
| author_facet | Li, Zhuoling Ren, Liangliang Yang, Jinrong Zhao, Yong Wu, Xiaoyang Xu, Zhenhua Bai, Xiang Zhao, Hengshuang |
| contents | The effectiveness of scaling up training data in robotic manipulation is still limited. A primary challenge in manipulation is the tasks are diverse, and the trained policy would be confused if the task targets are not specified clearly. Existing works primarily rely on text instruction to describe targets. However, we reveal that current robotic data cannot train policies to understand text instruction effectively, and vision is much more comprehensible. Therefore, we introduce utilizing vision instruction to specify targets. A straightforward implementation is training a policy to predict the intermediate actions linking the current observation and a future image. Nevertheless, a single future image does not describe the task target in insufficient detail. To handle this problem, we propose to use sparse point flows to provide more detailed information. Extensive tasks are designed based on real and simulated environments to evaluate the effectiveness of our vision instructed pre-training (VIP) method. The results indicate VIP improves the performance on diverse tasks significantly, and the derived policy can complete competitive tasks like ``opening the lid of a tightly sealed bottle''. |
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| publishDate | 2024 |
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| spellingShingle | VIP: Vision Instructed Pre-training for Robotic Manipulation Li, Zhuoling Ren, Liangliang Yang, Jinrong Zhao, Yong Wu, Xiaoyang Xu, Zhenhua Bai, Xiang Zhao, Hengshuang Robotics The effectiveness of scaling up training data in robotic manipulation is still limited. A primary challenge in manipulation is the tasks are diverse, and the trained policy would be confused if the task targets are not specified clearly. Existing works primarily rely on text instruction to describe targets. However, we reveal that current robotic data cannot train policies to understand text instruction effectively, and vision is much more comprehensible. Therefore, we introduce utilizing vision instruction to specify targets. A straightforward implementation is training a policy to predict the intermediate actions linking the current observation and a future image. Nevertheless, a single future image does not describe the task target in insufficient detail. To handle this problem, we propose to use sparse point flows to provide more detailed information. Extensive tasks are designed based on real and simulated environments to evaluate the effectiveness of our vision instructed pre-training (VIP) method. The results indicate VIP improves the performance on diverse tasks significantly, and the derived policy can complete competitive tasks like ``opening the lid of a tightly sealed bottle''. |
| title | VIP: Vision Instructed Pre-training for Robotic Manipulation |
| topic | Robotics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.07169 |