Deep compositional robotic planners that follow natural language commands

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2002.05201v2
• Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 16:21:46 GMT
• Title: Deep compositional robotic planners that follow natural language commands
• Authors: Yen-Ling Kuo, Boris Katz, Andrei Barbu
• Abstract summary: We show how a sampling-based robotic planner can be augmented to learn to understand a sequence of natural language commands. Our approach combines a deep network structured according to the parse of a complex command that includes objects, verbs, spatial relations, and attributes.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: We demonstrate how a sampling-based robotic planner can be augmented to learn to understand a sequence of natural language commands in a continuous configuration space to move and manipulate objects. Our approach combines a deep network structured according to the parse of a complex command that includes objects, verbs, spatial relations, and attributes, with a sampling-based planner, RRT. A recurrent hierarchical deep network controls how the planner explores the environment, determines when a planned path is likely to achieve a goal, and estimates the confidence of each move to trade off exploitation and exploration between the network and the planner. Planners are designed to have near-optimal behavior when information about the task is missing, while networks learn to exploit observations which are available from the environment, making the two naturally complementary. Combining the two enables generalization to new maps, new kinds of obstacles, and more complex sentences that do not occur in the training set. Little data is required to train the model despite it jointly acquiring a CNN that extracts features from the environment as it learns the meanings of words. The model provides a level of interpretability through the use of attention maps allowing users to see its reasoning steps despite being an end-to-end model. This end-to-end model allows robots to learn to follow natural language commands in challenging continuous environments.

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