We present Adaptive Skill Coordination (ASC) - an approach for accomplishing long-horizon tasks (e.g., mobile pick-and-place, consisting of navigating to an object, picking it, navigating to another location, placing it, repeating). ASC consists of three components - (1) a library of basic visuomotor skills (navigation, pick, place), (2) a skill coordination policy that chooses which skills are appropriate to use when, and (3) a corrective policy that adapts pre-trained skills when out-of-distribution states are perceived. All components of ASC rely only on onboard visual and proprioceptive sensing, without access to privileged information like pre-built maps or precise object locations, easing real-world deployment. We train ASC in simulated indoor environments, and deploy it zero-shot in two novel real-world environments on the Boston Dynamics Spot robot. ASC achieves near-perfect performance at mobile pick-and-place, succeeding in 59/60 (98%) episodes, while sequentially executing skills succeeds in only 44/60 (73%) episodes. It is robust to hand-off errors, changes in the environment layout, dynamic obstacles (e.g., people), and unexpected disturbances, making it an ideal framework for complex, long-horizon tasks. Supplementary videos available at adaptiveskillcoordination.github.io.
翻译:我们提出自适应技能协调(Adaptive Skill Coordination,ASC)——一种完成长时域任务(例如移动抓取与放置,包括导航至物体、抓取物体、导航至另一位置、放置物体、重复操作)的方法。ASC由三个组件构成:(1)基础视觉运动技能库(导航、抓取、放置);(2)技能协调策略,用于选择何时使用何种技能;(3)校正策略,用于在感知到分布外状态时调整预训练技能。ASC的所有组件仅依赖机载视觉和本体感觉传感,无需访问预建地图或精确物体位置等特权信息,从而简化了实际部署。我们在模拟室内环境中训练ASC,并在波士顿动力公司Spot机器人上将其零样本部署于两个新颖的真实世界环境。ASC在移动抓取与放置任务中实现了近乎完美的性能,在60个回合中成功完成59个(98%),而顺序执行技能仅在60个回合中成功44个(73%)。该方法对交接错误、环境布局变化、动态障碍物(如行人)以及意外干扰具有鲁棒性,使其成为复杂长时域任务的理想框架。补充视频请访问adaptiveskillcoordination.github.io。