Language Models as Zero-Shot Trajectory Generators

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.11604v2
• Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 23:57:03 GMT
• Title: Language Models as Zero-Shot Trajectory Generators
• Authors: Teyun Kwon, Norman Di Palo, Edward Johns,
• Abstract summary: Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently shown promise as high-level planners for robots. It is often assumed that LLMs do not possess sufficient knowledge to be used for the low-level trajectories themselves. This work investigates if an LLM can directly predict a dense sequence of end-effector poses for manipulation tasks.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently shown promise as high-level planners for robots when given access to a selection of low-level skills. However, it is often assumed that LLMs do not possess sufficient knowledge to be used for the low-level trajectories themselves. In this work, we address this assumption thoroughly, and investigate if an LLM (GPT-4) can directly predict a dense sequence of end-effector poses for manipulation tasks, when given access to only object detection and segmentation vision models. We designed a single, task-agnostic prompt, without any in-context examples, motion primitives, or external trajectory optimisers. Then we studied how well it can perform across 30 real-world language-based tasks, such as "open the bottle cap" and "wipe the plate with the sponge", and we investigated which design choices in this prompt are the most important. Our conclusions raise the assumed limit of LLMs for robotics, and we reveal for the first time that LLMs do indeed possess an understanding of low-level robot control sufficient for a range of common tasks, and that they can additionally detect failures and then re-plan trajectories accordingly. Videos, prompts, and code are available at: https://www.robot-learning.uk/language-models-trajectory-generators.

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