9 papers
Evaluating Tactile Foundation Models for End-to-End Imitation Learning in Contact-Rich Manipulation
Masaki Murooka, Ryoichi Nakajo, Tomohiro Motoda +4
Tactile sensing plays an important role in imitation learning for contact-rich manipulation by providing direct observations of physical contact with objects. Recently, several tac…
Self-Supervised Anchoring of Fingertip Sensing to Proprioception and Proactive Actions for Robot Imitation Learning
Tomohiro Motoda, Masaki Murooka, Keisuke Shirai +6
Robotic imitation learning often relies on external cameras, yet local interaction cues such as object proximity, contact onset, and grasp state are difficult to observe near the f…
Improving Imitation Learning Efficiency for Manipulation through Geometric Prior Pretraining
Shogo Iwakata, Tomohiro Motoda, Ryosuke Yamada +8
Applying an imitation learning policy to a new manipulation task usually requires collecting new demonstrations and retraining the model, which makes sample efficiency a practical…
The Embodiment Gap in Robot Foundation Models
Yukiyasu Domae, Keisuke Shirai, Hanbit Oh +7
Robot foundation models (RFMs), including vision-language-action (VLA) policies, are often discussed through a scaling view: more data, larger models, and broader benchmarks should…
TWINS: A Tactile Wearable Isomorphic Arm Networked System for Contact-Rich Manipulation Learning
Takahide Kitamura, Masaki Murooka, Natsuki Yamanobe +1
Recent advances in robot learning for manipulation have increased the importance of collecting real-world demonstration data. However, existing robotic systems primarily focus on e…
GuidedAttention: Interpretable and Correctable Visual Attention for OOD-Robust Robot Manipulation via Imitation Learning
Masaki Murooka, Ryoichi Nakajo, Keisuke Shirai +4
End-to-end visuomotor policies provide little opportunity for humans to understand or correct the policy's visual attention. We propose GuidedAttention, a visuomotor imitation lear…
RoboManipBaselines: A Unified Framework for Imitation Learning in Robotic Manipulation across Real and Simulation Environments
Masaki Murooka, Tomohiro Motoda, Ryoichi Nakajo +5
We present RoboManipBaselines, an open-source software framework for imitation learning research in robotic manipulation. The framework supports the entire imitation learning pipel…
Self-Augmented Robot Trajectory: Efficient Imitation Learning via Safe Self-augmentation with Demonstrator-annotated Precision
Hanbit Oh, Masaki Murooka, Tomohiro Motoda +2
Imitation learning is a promising paradigm for training robot agents; however, standard approaches typically require substantial data acquisition -- via numerous demonstrations or…
Learning Bimanual Manipulation via Action Chunking and Inter-Arm Coordination with Transformers
Tomohiro Motoda, Ryo Hanai, Ryoichi Nakajo +3
Robots that can operate autonomously in a human living environment are necessary to have the ability to handle various tasks flexibly. One crucial element is coordinated bimanual m…