Title
StructFormer: Learning Spatial Structure for Language-Guided Semantic Rearrangement of Novel Objects
Abstract
Geometric organization of objects into semantically meaningful arrangements pervades the built world. As such, assistive robots operating in warehouses, offices, and homes would greatly benefit from the ability to recognize and rearrange objects into these semantically meaningful structures. To be useful, these robots must contend with previously unseen objects and receive instructions without significant programming. While previous works have examined recognizing pairwise semantic relations and sequential manipulation to change these simple relations none have shown the ability to arrange objects into complex structures such as circles or table settings. To address this problem we propose a novel transformer-based neural network, StructFormer, which takes as input a partial-view point cloud of the current object arrangement and a structured language command encoding the desired object configuration. We show through rigorous experiments that StructFormer enables a physical robot to rearrange novel objects into semantically meaningful structures with multi-object relational constraints inferred from the language command.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/ICRA46639.2022.9811931
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
DocType
Volume
Issue
Conference
2022
1
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Weiyu Liu113.78
Chris Paxton24613.91
Tucker Hermans3183.13
Dieter Fox42427249.17