ERRA: An Embodied Representation and Reasoning Architecture for Long-Horizon Language-Conditioned Manipulation Tasks

Autor: Chao Zhao, Shuai Yuan, Chunli Jiang, Junhao Cai, Hongyu Yu, Michael Yu Wang, Qifeng Chen
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 8:3230-3237
ISSN: 2377-3774
DOI: 10.1109/lra.2023.3265893
Popis: This letter introduces ERRA, an embodied learning architecture that enables robots to jointly obtain three fundamental capabilities (reasoning, planning, and interaction) for solving long-horizon language-conditioned manipulation tasks. ERRA is based on tightly-coupled probabilistic inferences at two granularity levels. Coarse-resolution inference is formulated as sequence generation through a large language model, which infers action language from natural language instruction and environment state. The robot then zooms to the fine-resolution inference part to perform the concrete action corresponding to the action language. Fine-resolution inference is constructed as a Markov decision process, which takes action language and environmental sensing as observations and outputs the action. The results of action execution in environments provide feedback for subsequent coarse-resolution reasoning. Such coarse-to-fine inference allows the robot to decompose and achieve long-horizon tasks interactively. In extensive experiments, we show that ERRA can complete various long-horizon manipulation tasks specified by abstract language instructions. We also demonstrate successful generalization to the novel but similar natural language instructions.
Comment: Accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
Databáze: OpenAIRE