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Do My Samples Help? Compute Budget Allocation for Real-World Sampling-Based MPC in Contact-Rich Manipulation
Magnus Dierking, João Carvalho, Vince Kurtz +3
Sampling-based model predictive control (SMPC) is increasingly practical for contact-rich manipulation because GPU-based physics simulators enable real-time evaluation of large num…
Sequential Object Placement Optimization with Convex Decomposition
Yuezhe Zhang, Xiangyu Lyu, Sohan Rudra +2
Robotic object packing has been a core challenge for robotic deployment in logistics, industry, etc., due to the curse of dimensionality in combinatorial search and the difficulty…
Scalable Multi-Task Data Generation via Reinforcement Learning for Language-Conditioned Bimanual Dexterous Manipulation
Zechu Li, Yufeng Jin, Puze Liu +2
A key bottleneck in training generalist policies for bimanual dexterous manipulation is the lack of large-scale, high-quality datasets. Synthetic data generation in simulation prov…
Real-World Deployment of Massively Parallel Sampling-Based MPC for Contact-Rich Manipulation
Magnus Dierking, Joao Carvalho, An Thai Le +2
Sampling-based Model Predictive Control (SMPC) is a promising strategy for contact-rich robotic manipulation, combining gradient-free optimization with massively parallel GPU simul…
SE(3)-PoseFlow: Estimating 6D Pose Distributions for Uncertainty-Aware Robotic Manipulation
Yufeng Jin, Niklas Funk, Vignesh Prasad +4
Object pose estimation is a fundamental problem in robotics and computer vision, yet it remains challenging due to partial observability, occlusions, and object symmetries, which i…
The Role of Embodiment in Intuitive Whole-Body Teleoperation for Mobile Manipulation
Sophia Bianchi Moyen, Rickmer Krohn, Sophie Lueth +4
Intuitive Teleoperation interfaces are essential for mobile manipulation robots to ensure high quality data collection while reducing operator workload. A strong sense of embodimen…
Constrained Gaussian Process Motion Planning via Stein Variational Newton Inference
Jiayun Li, Kay Pompetzki, An Thai Le +3
Gaussian Process Motion Planning (GPMP) is a widely used framework for generating smooth trajectories within a limited compute time--an essential requirement in many robotic applic…
On the Importance of Tactile Sensing for Imitation Learning: A Case Study on Robotic Match Lighting
Niklas Funk, Changqi Chen, Tim Schneider +3
The field of robotic manipulation has advanced significantly in recent years. At the sensing level, several novel tactile sensors have been developed, capable of providing accurate…
DIME:Diffusion-Based Maximum Entropy Reinforcement Learning
Onur Celik, Zechu Li, Denis Blessing +5
Maximum entropy reinforcement learning (MaxEnt-RL) has become the standard approach to RL due to its beneficial exploration properties. Traditionally, policies are parameterized us…
Global Tensor Motion Planning
An T. Le, Kay Hansel, João Carvalho +5
Batch planning is increasingly necessary to quickly produce diverse and quality motion plans for downstream learning applications, such as distillation and imitation learning. This…
ActionFlow: Equivariant, Accurate, and Efficient Policies with Spatially Symmetric Flow Matching
Niklas Funk, Julen Urain, Joao Carvalho +3
Spatial understanding is a critical aspect of most robotic tasks, particularly when generalization is important. Despite the impressive results of deep generative models in complex…
Safe and Efficient Path Planning under Uncertainty via Deep Collision Probability Fields
Felix Herrmann, Sebastian Zach, Jacopo Banfi +3
Estimating collision probabilities between robots and environmental obstacles or other moving agents is crucial to ensure safety during path planning. This is an important building…
Deep Generative Models in Robotics: A Survey on Learning from Multimodal Demonstrations
Julen Urain, Ajay Mandlekar, Yilun Du +5
Learning from Demonstrations, the field that proposes to learn robot behavior models from data, is gaining popularity with the emergence of deep generative models. Although the pro…
MoVEInt: Mixture of Variational Experts for Learning Human-Robot Interactions from Demonstrations
Vignesh Prasad, Alap Kshirsagar, Dorothea Koert +3
Shared dynamics models are important for capturing the complexity and variability inherent in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). Therefore, learning such shared dynamics models can enh…
Learning Multimodal Behaviors from Scratch with Diffusion Policy Gradient
Zechu Li, Rickmer Krohn, Tao Chen +3
Deep reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms typically parameterize the policy as a deep network that outputs either a deterministic action or a stochastic one modeled as a Gaussian…
Transition State Clustering for Interaction Segmentation and Learning
Fabian Hahne, Vignesh Prasad, Alap Kshirsagar +4
Hidden Markov Models with an underlying Mixture of Gaussian structure have proven effective in learning Human-Robot Interactions from demonstrations for various interactive tasks v…
Kinematically Constrained Human-like Bimanual Robot-to-Human Handovers
Yasemin Göksu, Antonio De Almeida Correia, Vignesh Prasad +4
Bimanual handovers are crucial for transferring large, deformable or delicate objects. This paper proposes a framework for generating kinematically constrained human-like bimanual…
Evetac: An Event-based Optical Tactile Sensor for Robotic Manipulation
Niklas Funk, Erik Helmut, Georgia Chalvatzaki +2
Optical tactile sensors have recently become popular. They provide high spatial resolution, but struggle to offer fine temporal resolutions. To overcome this shortcoming, we study…
Robust Adversarial Reinforcement Learning via Bounded Rationality Curricula
Aryaman Reddi, Maximilian Tölle, Jan Peters +2
Robustness against adversarial attacks and distribution shifts is a long-standing goal of Reinforcement Learning (RL). To this end, Robust Adversarial Reinforcement Learning (RARL)…
Learning Multimodal Latent Dynamics for Human-Robot Interaction
Vignesh Prasad, Lea Heitlinger, Dorothea Koert +3
This article presents a method for learning well-coordinated Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) from Human-Human Interactions (HHI). We devise a hybrid approach using Hidden Markov Mode…
Domain Randomization via Entropy Maximization
Gabriele Tiboni, Pascal Klink, Jan Peters +3
Varying dynamics parameters in simulation is a popular Domain Randomization (DR) approach for overcoming the reality gap in Reinforcement Learning (RL). Nevertheless, DR heavily hi…
Accelerating Motion Planning via Optimal Transport
An T. Le, Georgia Chalvatzaki, Armin Biess +1
Motion planning is still an open problem for many disciplines, e.g., robotics, autonomous driving, due to their need for high computational resources that hinder real-time, efficie…
Hierarchical Policy Blending As Optimal Transport
An T. Le, Kay Hansel, Jan Peters +1
We present hierarchical policy blending as optimal transport (HiPBOT). HiPBOT hierarchically adjusts the weights of low-level reactive expert policies of different agents by adding…
Active Exploration for Robotic Manipulation
Tim Schneider, Boris Belousov, Georgia Chalvatzaki +3
Robotic manipulation stands as a largely unsolved problem despite significant advances in robotics and machine learning in recent years. One of the key challenges in manipulation i…