Learning fine-grained bimanual manipulation with low-cost hardware

TZ Zhao, V Kumar, S Levine, C Finn - arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.13705, 2023 - arxiv.org
Fine manipulation tasks, such as threading cable ties or slotting a battery, are notoriously
difficult for robots because they require precision, careful coordination of contact forces, and …

Deep imitation learning for bimanual robotic manipulation

F Xie, A Chowdhury… - Advances in neural …, 2020 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We present a deep imitation learning framework for robotic bimanual manipulation in a
continuous state-action space. A core challenge is to generalize the manipulation skills to …

Waypoint-based imitation learning for robotic manipulation

LX Shi, A Sharma, TZ Zhao, C Finn - arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.14326, 2023 - arxiv.org
While imitation learning methods have seen a resurgent interest for robotic manipulation, the
well-known problem of compounding errors continues to afflict behavioral cloning (BC) …

Visual imitation made easy

S Young, D Gandhi, S Tulsiani… - … on Robot Learning, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
Visual imitation learning provides a framework for learning complex manipulation behaviors
by leveraging human demonstrations. However, current interfaces for imitation such as …

Mobile aloha: Learning bimanual mobile manipulation with low-cost whole-body teleoperation

Z Fu, TZ Zhao, C Finn - arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.02117, 2024 - arxiv.org
Imitation learning from human demonstrations has shown impressive performance in
robotics. However, most results focus on table-top manipulation, lacking the mobility and …

Human-in-the-loop imitation learning using remote teleoperation

A Mandlekar, D Xu, R Martín-Martín, Y Zhu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Imitation Learning is a promising paradigm for learning complex robot manipulation skills by
reproducing behavior from human demonstrations. However, manipulation tasks often …

Bottom-up skill discovery from unsegmented demonstrations for long-horizon robot manipulation

Y Zhu, P Stone, Y Zhu - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We tackle real-world long-horizon robot manipulation tasks through skill discovery. We
present a bottom-up approach to learning a library of reusable skills from unsegmented …

Dexterous imitation made easy: A learning-based framework for efficient dexterous manipulation

SP Arunachalam, S Silwal, B Evans… - 2023 ieee international …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optimizing behaviors for dexterous manipulation has been a longstanding challenge in
robotics, with a variety of methods from model-based control to model-free reinforcement …

Universal manipulation interface: In-the-wild robot teaching without in-the-wild robots

C Chi, Z Xu, C Pan, E Cousineau, B Burchfiel… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We present Universal Manipulation Interface (UMI)--a data collection and policy learning
framework that allows direct skill transfer from in-the-wild human demonstrations to …

Efficient bimanual manipulation using learned task schemas

R Chitnis, S Tulsiani, S Gupta… - 2020 IEEE International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We address the problem of effectively composing skills to solve sparse-reward tasks in the
real world. Given a set of parameterized skills (such as exerting a force or doing a top grasp …