Fabrica: Dual-Arm Assembly of General Multi-Part Objects via Integrated Planning and Learning

Yunsheng Tian, Joshua Jacob, Yijiang Huang, Jialiang Zhao, Edward Li Gu, Pingchuan Ma, Annan Zhang, Farhad Javid, Branden Romero, Sachin Chitta, Shinjiro Sueda, Hui Li, Wojciech Matusik

Keywords: Assembly, Planning, Reinforcement Learning, Benchmark

TL;DR: A general planning and control system for flexible, dual-arm assembly of multi-part objects.

Abstract: Multi-part assembly poses significant challenges for robotic systems to execute long-horizon, contact-rich manipulation with generalization across complex geometries. We present a dual-arm robotic system capable of end-to-end planning and control for autonomous assembly of general multi-part objects. For planning over long horizons, we develop hierarchies of precedence, sequence, grasp, and motion planning with automated fixture generation, enabling general multi-step assembly on any dual-arm robots. The planner is made efficient through a parallelizable design and is optimized for downstream control stability. For contact-rich assembly steps, we propose a lightweight reinforcement learning framework that trains generalist policies across object geometries, assembly directions, and grasp poses, guided by equivaraiance and residual actions obtained from the plan. These policies transfer zero-shot to the real world and achieve 80% success rates. For systematic evaluation, we propose a benchmark suite of multi-part assemblies resembling industrial and daily objects across diverse categories and geometries. By integrating efficient global planning and robust local control, we demonstrate the first system to achieve complete and generalizable real-world multi-part assembly without domain knowledge or human demonstrations.

Submission Number: 437