4 papers
Warm-Starting Collision-Free Model Predictive Control With Object-Centric Diffusion
Arthur Haffemayer, Alexandre Chapin, Armand Jordana +4
Acting in cluttered environments requires predicting and avoiding collisions while still achieving precise control. Conventional optimization-based controllers can enforce physical…
Robotic Manipulation via Imitation Learning: Taxonomy, Evolution, Benchmark, and Challenges
Zezeng Li, Alexandre Chapin, Enda Xiang +6
Robotic Manipulation (RM) is central to the advancement of autonomous robots, enabling them to interact with and manipulate objects in real-world environments. This survey focuses…
Is an object-centric representation beneficial for robotic manipulation ?
Alexandre Chapin, Emmanuel Dellandrea, Liming Chen
Object-centric representation (OCR) has recently become a subject of interest in the computer vision community for learning a structured representation of images and videos. It has…
Object-Centric Representations Improve Policy Generalization in Robot Manipulation
Alexandre Chapin, Bruno Machado, Emmanuel Dellandrea +1
Visual representations are central to the learning and generalization capabilities of robotic manipulation policies. While existing methods rely on global or dense features, such r…