Seeing the Bigger Picture: 3D Latent Mapping for Mobile Manipulation Policy Learning

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Hauptverfasser: Kim, Sunghwan, Chung, Woojeh, Dai, Zhirui, Bhatt, Dwait, Shukla, Arth, Su, Hao, Tian, Yulun, Atanasov, Nikolay
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author Kim, Sunghwan
Chung, Woojeh
Dai, Zhirui
Bhatt, Dwait
Shukla, Arth
Su, Hao
Tian, Yulun
Atanasov, Nikolay
author_facet Kim, Sunghwan
Chung, Woojeh
Dai, Zhirui
Bhatt, Dwait
Shukla, Arth
Su, Hao
Tian, Yulun
Atanasov, Nikolay
contents In this paper, we demonstrate that mobile manipulation policies utilizing a 3D latent map achieve stronger spatial and temporal reasoning than policies relying solely on images. We introduce Seeing the Bigger Picture (SBP), an end-to-end policy learning approach that operates directly on a 3D map of latent features. In SBP, the map extends perception beyond the robot's current field of view and aggregates observations over long horizons. Our mapping approach incrementally fuses multiview observations into a grid of scene-specific latent features. A pre-trained, scene-agnostic decoder reconstructs target embeddings from these features and enables online optimization of the map features during task execution. A policy, trainable with behavior cloning or reinforcement learning, treats the latent map as a state variable and uses global context from the map obtained via a 3D feature aggregator. We evaluate SBP on scene-level mobile manipulation and sequential tabletop manipulation tasks. Our experiments demonstrate that SBP (i) reasons globally over the scene, (ii) leverages the map as long-horizon memory, and (iii) outperforms image-based policies in both in-distribution and novel scenes, e.g., improving the success rate by 15% for the sequential manipulation task.
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spellingShingle Seeing the Bigger Picture: 3D Latent Mapping for Mobile Manipulation Policy Learning
Kim, Sunghwan
Chung, Woojeh
Dai, Zhirui
Bhatt, Dwait
Shukla, Arth
Su, Hao
Tian, Yulun
Atanasov, Nikolay
Robotics
In this paper, we demonstrate that mobile manipulation policies utilizing a 3D latent map achieve stronger spatial and temporal reasoning than policies relying solely on images. We introduce Seeing the Bigger Picture (SBP), an end-to-end policy learning approach that operates directly on a 3D map of latent features. In SBP, the map extends perception beyond the robot's current field of view and aggregates observations over long horizons. Our mapping approach incrementally fuses multiview observations into a grid of scene-specific latent features. A pre-trained, scene-agnostic decoder reconstructs target embeddings from these features and enables online optimization of the map features during task execution. A policy, trainable with behavior cloning or reinforcement learning, treats the latent map as a state variable and uses global context from the map obtained via a 3D feature aggregator. We evaluate SBP on scene-level mobile manipulation and sequential tabletop manipulation tasks. Our experiments demonstrate that SBP (i) reasons globally over the scene, (ii) leverages the map as long-horizon memory, and (iii) outperforms image-based policies in both in-distribution and novel scenes, e.g., improving the success rate by 15% for the sequential manipulation task.
title Seeing the Bigger Picture: 3D Latent Mapping for Mobile Manipulation Policy Learning
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03885