SceneReplica: Benchmarking Real-World Robot Manipulation by Creating Replicable Scenes

Ninad Khargonkar, Sai Haneesh Allu, Yangxiao Lu, Jishnu Jaykumar P, Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, Yu Xiang

Abstract: We present a new reproducible benchmark for evaluating robot manipulation in the real world, specifically focusing on a pick-and-place task. Our benchmark uses the YCB object set, a commonly used dataset in the robotics community, to ensure that our results are comparable to other studies. Additionally, the benchmark is designed to be easily reproducible in the real world, making it accessible to researchers and practitioners. We also provide our experimental results and analyzes for model-based and model-free 6D robotic grasping on the benchmark, where representative algorithms are evaluated for object perception, grasping planning, and motion planning. We believe that our benchmark will be a valuable tool for advancing the field of robot manipulation. By providing a standardized evaluation framework, researchers can more easily compare different techniques and algorithms, leading to faster progress in developing robot manipulation methods. 1