Stimulating Imagination: Towards General-purpose Object Rearrangement

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2408.01655v1
• Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2024 03:53:05 GMT
• Title: Stimulating Imagination: Towards General-purpose Object Rearrangement
• Authors: Jianyang Wu, Jie Gu, Xiaokang Ma, Chu Tang, Jingmin Chen,
• Abstract summary: General-purpose object placement is a fundamental capability of intelligent robots. We propose a framework named SPORT to accomplish this task. Sport learns a diffusion-based 3D pose estimator to ensure physically-realistic results. A set of simulation and real-world experiments demonstrate the potential of our approach to accomplish general-purpose object rearrangement.
• Score: 2.0885207827639785
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: General-purpose object placement is a fundamental capability of an intelligent generalist robot, i.e., being capable of rearranging objects following human instructions even in novel environments. To achieve this, we break the rearrangement down into three parts, including object localization, goal imagination and robot control, and propose a framework named SPORT. SPORT leverages pre-trained large vision models for broad semantic reasoning about objects, and learns a diffusion-based 3D pose estimator to ensure physically-realistic results. Only object types (to be moved or reference) are communicated between these two parts, which brings two benefits. One is that we can fully leverage the powerful ability of open-set object localization and recognition since no specific fine-tuning is needed for robotic scenarios. Furthermore, the diffusion-based estimator only need to "imagine" the poses of the moving and reference objects after the placement, while no necessity for their semantic information. Thus the training burden is greatly reduced and no massive training is required. The training data for goal pose estimation is collected in simulation and annotated with GPT-4. A set of simulation and real-world experiments demonstrate the potential of our approach to accomplish general-purpose object rearrangement, placing various objects following precise instructions.

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