Screw Geometry Meets Bandits: Incremental Acquisition of Demonstrations to Generate Manipulation Plans

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Autores principales: Das, Dibyendu, Patankar, Aditya, Chakraborty, Nilanjan, Ramakrishnan, C. R., Ramakrishnan, I. V.
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author Das, Dibyendu
Patankar, Aditya
Chakraborty, Nilanjan
Ramakrishnan, C. R.
Ramakrishnan, I. V.
author_facet Das, Dibyendu
Patankar, Aditya
Chakraborty, Nilanjan
Ramakrishnan, C. R.
Ramakrishnan, I. V.
contents In this paper, we study the problem of methodically obtaining a sufficient set of kinesthetic demonstrations, one at a time, such that a robot can be confident of its ability to perform a complex manipulation task in a given region of its workspace. Although Learning from Demonstrations has been an active area of research, the problems of checking whether a set of demonstrations is sufficient, and systematically seeking additional demonstrations have remained open. We present a novel approach to address these open problems using (i) a screw geometric representation to generate manipulation plans from demonstrations, which makes the sufficiency of a set of demonstrations measurable; (ii) a sampling strategy based on PAC-learning from multi-armed bandit optimization to evaluate the robot's ability to generate manipulation plans in a subregion of its task space; and (iii) a heuristic to seek additional demonstration from areas of weakness. Thus, we present an approach for the robot to incrementally and actively ask for new demonstration examples until the robot can assess with high confidence that it can perform the task successfully. We present experimental results on two example manipulation tasks, namely, pouring and scooping, to illustrate our approach. A short video on the method: https://youtu.be/R-qICICdEos
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spellingShingle Screw Geometry Meets Bandits: Incremental Acquisition of Demonstrations to Generate Manipulation Plans
Das, Dibyendu
Patankar, Aditya
Chakraborty, Nilanjan
Ramakrishnan, C. R.
Ramakrishnan, I. V.
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
In this paper, we study the problem of methodically obtaining a sufficient set of kinesthetic demonstrations, one at a time, such that a robot can be confident of its ability to perform a complex manipulation task in a given region of its workspace. Although Learning from Demonstrations has been an active area of research, the problems of checking whether a set of demonstrations is sufficient, and systematically seeking additional demonstrations have remained open. We present a novel approach to address these open problems using (i) a screw geometric representation to generate manipulation plans from demonstrations, which makes the sufficiency of a set of demonstrations measurable; (ii) a sampling strategy based on PAC-learning from multi-armed bandit optimization to evaluate the robot's ability to generate manipulation plans in a subregion of its task space; and (iii) a heuristic to seek additional demonstration from areas of weakness. Thus, we present an approach for the robot to incrementally and actively ask for new demonstration examples until the robot can assess with high confidence that it can perform the task successfully. We present experimental results on two example manipulation tasks, namely, pouring and scooping, to illustrate our approach. A short video on the method: https://youtu.be/R-qICICdEos
title Screw Geometry Meets Bandits: Incremental Acquisition of Demonstrations to Generate Manipulation Plans
topic Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.18275