StageACT: Stage-Conditioned Imitation for Robust Humanoid Door Opening

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Hauptverfasser: Lee, Moonyoung, Kim, Dong Ki, Bandi, Jai Krishna, Smith, Max, Liao, Aileen, Agha-mohammadi, Ali-akbar, Omidshafiei, Shayegan
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author Lee, Moonyoung
Kim, Dong Ki
Bandi, Jai Krishna
Smith, Max
Liao, Aileen
Agha-mohammadi, Ali-akbar
Omidshafiei, Shayegan
author_facet Lee, Moonyoung
Kim, Dong Ki
Bandi, Jai Krishna
Smith, Max
Liao, Aileen
Agha-mohammadi, Ali-akbar
Omidshafiei, Shayegan
contents Humanoid robots promise to operate in everyday human environments without requiring modifications to the surroundings. Among the many skills needed, opening doors is essential, as doors are the most common gateways in built spaces and often limit where a robot can go. Door opening, however, poses unique challenges as it is a long-horizon task under partial observability, such as reasoning about the door's unobservable latch state that dictates whether the robot should rotate the handle or push the door. This ambiguity makes standard behavior cloning prone to mode collapse, yielding blended or out-of-sequence actions. We introduce StageACT, a stage-conditioned imitation learning framework that augments low-level policies with task-stage inputs. This effective addition increases robustness to partial observability, leading to higher success rates and shorter completion times. On a humanoid operating in a real-world office environment, StageACT achieves a 55% success rate on previously unseen doors, more than doubling the best baseline. Moreover, our method supports intentional behavior guidance through stage prompting, enabling recovery behaviors. These results highlight stage conditioning as a lightweight yet powerful mechanism for long-horizon humanoid loco-manipulation.
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spellingShingle StageACT: Stage-Conditioned Imitation for Robust Humanoid Door Opening
Lee, Moonyoung
Kim, Dong Ki
Bandi, Jai Krishna
Smith, Max
Liao, Aileen
Agha-mohammadi, Ali-akbar
Omidshafiei, Shayegan
Robotics
Humanoid robots promise to operate in everyday human environments without requiring modifications to the surroundings. Among the many skills needed, opening doors is essential, as doors are the most common gateways in built spaces and often limit where a robot can go. Door opening, however, poses unique challenges as it is a long-horizon task under partial observability, such as reasoning about the door's unobservable latch state that dictates whether the robot should rotate the handle or push the door. This ambiguity makes standard behavior cloning prone to mode collapse, yielding blended or out-of-sequence actions. We introduce StageACT, a stage-conditioned imitation learning framework that augments low-level policies with task-stage inputs. This effective addition increases robustness to partial observability, leading to higher success rates and shorter completion times. On a humanoid operating in a real-world office environment, StageACT achieves a 55% success rate on previously unseen doors, more than doubling the best baseline. Moreover, our method supports intentional behavior guidance through stage prompting, enabling recovery behaviors. These results highlight stage conditioning as a lightweight yet powerful mechanism for long-horizon humanoid loco-manipulation.
title StageACT: Stage-Conditioned Imitation for Robust Humanoid Door Opening
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13200