Generalizable Task Planning through Representation PretrainingDownload PDF

Published: 13 Dec 2022, Last Modified: 16 May 2023CoRL 2022 Workshop Long-Horizon Planning OralReaders: Everyone
Keywords: Integrated Planning and Learning, Task and Motion Planning, Representation Learning
TL;DR: A novel learning-to-plan method that can generalize to new object instances by leveraging object representations learned through large-scale pretraining.
Abstract: The ability to plan for multi-step manipulation tasks in unseen situations is crucial for future home robots. But collecting sufficient experience data for end-to-end learning is often infeasible in the real world, as deploying robots in many environments can be prohibitively expensive. On the other hand, large-scale scene understanding datasets contain diverse and rich semantic and geometric information. But how to leverage such information for manipulation remains an open problem. In this paper, we propose a learning-to-plan method that can generalize to new object instances by leveraging object-level representations extracted from a synthetic scene understanding dataset. We evaluate our method with a suite of challenging multi-step manipulation tasks inspired by the BEHAVIOR household activities and show that our model achieves measurably better success rate than state-of-the-art end-to-end approaches. Additional information can be found at: https://sites.google.com/view/gentp
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