Robot grips new objects in new poses from 10 examples using neural descriptor fields

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Robot grips new objects in new poses from 10 examples using neural descriptor fields

Neural Descriptor Fields: SE(3)-Equivariant Object Representations for Manipulation
arXiv paper abstract https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.05124v1
arXiv PDF paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.05124v1.pdf
GitHub https://github.com/anthonysimeonov/ndf_robot
Project page https://yilundu.github.io/ndf
Colab demo https://colab.research.google.com/drive/16bFIFq_E8mnAVwZ_V2qQiKp4x4D0n1sG?usp=sharing
Twitter post https://twitter.com/taiyasaki/status/1469356579203862530

… present Neural Descriptor Fields (NDFs), … encodes both points and relative poses between an object and a target (such as a robot gripper or a rack used for hanging) via category-level descriptors.

… employ this representation for object manipulation, where given a task demonstration, we want to repeat the same task on a new object instance from the same category.

… achieve … by searching (via optimization) for the pose whose descriptor matches that observed in the demonstration.

… trained in a self-supervised fashion via a 3D auto-encoding task that does not rely on expert-labeled keypoints.

… NDFs are SE(3)-equivariant, guaranteeing performance that generalizes across all possible 3D object translations and rotations.

… demonstrate learning of manipulation tasks from few (5–10) demonstrations … on a real robot. … and significantly outperforms a recent baseline that relies on 2D descriptors. …

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