ReBot: Scaling Robot Learning with Real-to-Sim-to-Real Robotic Video Synthesis

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Autori principali: Fang, Yu, Yang, Yue, Zhu, Xinghao, Zheng, Kaiyuan, Bertasius, Gedas, Szafir, Daniel, Ding, Mingyu
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author Fang, Yu
Yang, Yue
Zhu, Xinghao
Zheng, Kaiyuan
Bertasius, Gedas
Szafir, Daniel
Ding, Mingyu
author_facet Fang, Yu
Yang, Yue
Zhu, Xinghao
Zheng, Kaiyuan
Bertasius, Gedas
Szafir, Daniel
Ding, Mingyu
contents Vision-language-action (VLA) models present a promising paradigm by training policies directly on real robot datasets like Open X-Embodiment. However, the high cost of real-world data collection hinders further data scaling, thereby restricting the generalizability of VLAs. In this paper, we introduce ReBot, a novel real-to-sim-to-real approach for scaling real robot datasets and adapting VLA models to target domains, which is the last-mile deployment challenge in robot manipulation. Specifically, ReBot replays real-world robot trajectories in simulation to diversify manipulated objects (real-to-sim), and integrates the simulated movements with inpainted real-world background to synthesize physically realistic and temporally consistent robot videos (sim-to-real). Our approach has several advantages: 1) it enjoys the benefit of real data to minimize the sim-to-real gap; 2) it leverages the scalability of simulation; and 3) it can generalize a pretrained VLA to a target domain with fully automated data pipelines. Extensive experiments in both simulation and real-world environments show that ReBot significantly enhances the performance and robustness of VLAs. For example, in SimplerEnv with the WidowX robot, ReBot improved the in-domain performance of Octo by 7.2% and OpenVLA by 21.8%, and out-of-domain generalization by 19.9% and 9.4%, respectively. For real-world evaluation with a Franka robot, ReBot increased the success rates of Octo by 17% and OpenVLA by 20%. More information can be found at: https://yuffish.github.io/rebot/
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spellingShingle ReBot: Scaling Robot Learning with Real-to-Sim-to-Real Robotic Video Synthesis
Fang, Yu
Yang, Yue
Zhu, Xinghao
Zheng, Kaiyuan
Bertasius, Gedas
Szafir, Daniel
Ding, Mingyu
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Graphics
Robotics
Vision-language-action (VLA) models present a promising paradigm by training policies directly on real robot datasets like Open X-Embodiment. However, the high cost of real-world data collection hinders further data scaling, thereby restricting the generalizability of VLAs. In this paper, we introduce ReBot, a novel real-to-sim-to-real approach for scaling real robot datasets and adapting VLA models to target domains, which is the last-mile deployment challenge in robot manipulation. Specifically, ReBot replays real-world robot trajectories in simulation to diversify manipulated objects (real-to-sim), and integrates the simulated movements with inpainted real-world background to synthesize physically realistic and temporally consistent robot videos (sim-to-real). Our approach has several advantages: 1) it enjoys the benefit of real data to minimize the sim-to-real gap; 2) it leverages the scalability of simulation; and 3) it can generalize a pretrained VLA to a target domain with fully automated data pipelines. Extensive experiments in both simulation and real-world environments show that ReBot significantly enhances the performance and robustness of VLAs. For example, in SimplerEnv with the WidowX robot, ReBot improved the in-domain performance of Octo by 7.2% and OpenVLA by 21.8%, and out-of-domain generalization by 19.9% and 9.4%, respectively. For real-world evaluation with a Franka robot, ReBot increased the success rates of Octo by 17% and OpenVLA by 20%. More information can be found at: https://yuffish.github.io/rebot/
title ReBot: Scaling Robot Learning with Real-to-Sim-to-Real Robotic Video Synthesis
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Graphics
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.14526