Title
Transferable Task Execution from Pixels through Deep Planning Domain Learning
Abstract
While robots can learn models to solve many manipulation tasks from raw visual input, they cannot usually use these models to solve new problems. On the other hand, symbolic planning methods such as STRIPS have long been able to solve new problems given only a domain definition and a symbolic goal, but these approaches often struggle on the real world robotic tasks due to the challenges of grounding these symbols from sensor data in a partially-observable world. We propose Deep Planning Domain Learning (DPDL), an approach that combines the strengths of both methods to learn a hierarchical model. DPDL learns a high-level model which predicts values for a large set of logical predicates consisting of the current symbolic world state, and separately learns a low-level policy which translates symbolic operators into executable actions on the robot. This allows us to perform complex, multi-step tasks even when the robot has not been explicitly trained on them. We show our method on manipulation tasks in a photorealistic kitchen scenario.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/ICRA40945.2020.9196597
ICRA
DocType
Volume
Issue
Conference
2020
1
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
18
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kei Kase1181.80
Chris Paxton24613.91
Mazhar Hammad310.35
Tetsuya Ogata41158135.73
Dieter Fox5123061289.74