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Autori principali: Przystupa, Michael, Gidel, Gauthier, Taylor, Matthew E., Jagersand, Martin, Piater, Justus, Tosatto, Samuele
Natura: Preprint
Pubblicazione: 2024
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.21406
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author Przystupa, Michael
Gidel, Gauthier
Taylor, Matthew E.
Jagersand, Martin
Piater, Justus
Tosatto, Samuele
author_facet Przystupa, Michael
Gidel, Gauthier
Taylor, Matthew E.
Jagersand, Martin
Piater, Justus
Tosatto, Samuele
contents As robots become more common for both able-bodied individuals and those living with a disability, it is increasingly important that lay people be able to drive multi-degree-of-freedom platforms with low-dimensional controllers. One approach is to use state-conditioned action mapping methods to learn mappings between low-dimensional controllers and high DOF manipulators -- prior research suggests these mappings can simplify the teleoperation experience for users. Recent works suggest that neural networks predicting a local linear function are superior to the typical end-to-end multi-layer perceptrons because they allow users to more easily undo actions, providing more control over the system. However, local linear models assume actions exist on a linear subspace and may not capture nuanced actions in training data. We observe that the benefit of these mappings is being an odd function concerning user actions, and propose end-to-end nonlinear action maps which achieve this property. Unfortunately, our experiments show that such modifications offer minimal advantages over previous solutions. We find that nonlinear odd functions behave linearly for most of the control space, suggesting architecture structure improvements are not the primary factor in data-driven teleoperation. Our results suggest other avenues, such as data augmentation techniques and analysis of human behavior, are necessary for action maps to become practical in real-world applications, such as in assistive robotics to improve the quality of life of people living with w disability.
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spellingShingle Investigating the Benefits of Nonlinear Action Maps in Data-Driven Teleoperation
Przystupa, Michael
Gidel, Gauthier
Taylor, Matthew E.
Jagersand, Martin
Piater, Justus
Tosatto, Samuele
Robotics
As robots become more common for both able-bodied individuals and those living with a disability, it is increasingly important that lay people be able to drive multi-degree-of-freedom platforms with low-dimensional controllers. One approach is to use state-conditioned action mapping methods to learn mappings between low-dimensional controllers and high DOF manipulators -- prior research suggests these mappings can simplify the teleoperation experience for users. Recent works suggest that neural networks predicting a local linear function are superior to the typical end-to-end multi-layer perceptrons because they allow users to more easily undo actions, providing more control over the system. However, local linear models assume actions exist on a linear subspace and may not capture nuanced actions in training data. We observe that the benefit of these mappings is being an odd function concerning user actions, and propose end-to-end nonlinear action maps which achieve this property. Unfortunately, our experiments show that such modifications offer minimal advantages over previous solutions. We find that nonlinear odd functions behave linearly for most of the control space, suggesting architecture structure improvements are not the primary factor in data-driven teleoperation. Our results suggest other avenues, such as data augmentation techniques and analysis of human behavior, are necessary for action maps to become practical in real-world applications, such as in assistive robotics to improve the quality of life of people living with w disability.
title Investigating the Benefits of Nonlinear Action Maps in Data-Driven Teleoperation
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.21406