IFOR: Iterative Flow Minimization for Robotic Object Rearrangement

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2202.00732v1
• Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2022 20:03:56 GMT
• Title: IFOR: Iterative Flow Minimization for Robotic Object Rearrangement
• Authors: Ankit Goyal, Arsalan Mousavian, Chris Paxton, Yu-Wei Chao, Brian Okorn, Jia Deng, Dieter Fox
• Abstract summary: IFOR, Iterative Flow Minimization for Robotic Object Rearrangement, is an end-to-end method for the problem of object rearrangement for unknown objects. We show that our method applies to cluttered scenes, and in the real world, while training only on synthetic data.
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• Abstract: Accurate object rearrangement from vision is a crucial problem for a wide variety of real-world robotics applications in unstructured environments. We propose IFOR, Iterative Flow Minimization for Robotic Object Rearrangement, an end-to-end method for the challenging problem of object rearrangement for unknown objects given an RGBD image of the original and final scenes. First, we learn an optical flow model based on RAFT to estimate the relative transformation of the objects purely from synthetic data. This flow is then used in an iterative minimization algorithm to achieve accurate positioning of previously unseen objects. Crucially, we show that our method applies to cluttered scenes, and in the real world, while training only on synthetic data. Videos are available at https://imankgoyal.github.io/ifor.html.

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