TR2024-033
Multi-level Reasoning for Robotic Assembly: From Sequence Inference to Contact Selection
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- "Multi-level Reasoning for Robotic Assembly: From Sequence Inference to Contact Selection", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), March 2024, pp. 816-823.BibTeX TR2024-033 PDF Video
- @inproceedings{Zhu2024mar,
- author = {Zhu, Xinghao and Jha, Devesh K. and Romeres, Diego and Sun, Lingfeng and Tomizuka, Masayoshi and Cherian, Anoop},
- title = {Multi-level Reasoning for Robotic Assembly: From Sequence Inference to Contact Selection},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
- year = 2024,
- pages = {816--823},
- month = mar,
- publisher = {IEEE},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-033}
- }
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- "Multi-level Reasoning for Robotic Assembly: From Sequence Inference to Contact Selection", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), March 2024, pp. 816-823.
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Abstract:
Automating the assembly of objects from their parts is a complex problem with innumerable applications in manufacturing, maintenance, and recycling. Unlike existing re- search, which is limited to target segmentation, pose regression, or using fixed target blueprints, our work presents a holistic multi-level framework for part assembly planning consisting of part assembly sequence inference, part motion planning, and robot contact optimization. We present the Part Assembly Sequence Transformer (PAST) – a sequence-to-sequence neural network – to infer assembly sequences recursively from a target blueprint. We then use a motion planner and optimization to generate part movements and contacts. To train PAST, we introduce D4PAS: a large-scale Dataset for Part Assembly Sequences consisting of physically valid sequences for industrial objects. Experimental results show that our approach generalizes better than prior methods while needing significantly less computational time for inference. Further details on our experiments and results are available in the video.
Related News & Events
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NEWS MERL at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024 Date: May 13, 2024 - May 17, 2024
Where: Yokohama, Japan
MERL Contacts: Anoop Cherian; Radu Corcodel; Stefano Di Cairano; Chiori Hori; Siddarth Jain; Devesh K. Jha; Jonathan Le Roux; Diego Romeres; William S. Yerazunis
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Optimization, Robotics, Speech & AudioBrief- MERL made significant contributions to both the organization and the technical program of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024, which was held in Yokohama, Japan from May 13th to May 17th.
MERL was a Bronze sponsor of the conference, and exhibited a live robotic demonstration, which attracted a large audience. The demonstration showcased an Autonomous Robotic Assembly technology executed on MELCO's Assista robot arm and was the collaborative effort of the Optimization and Robotics Team together with the Advanced Technology department at Mitsubishi Electric.
MERL researchers from the Optimization and Robotics, Speech & Audio, and Control for Autonomy teams also presented 8 papers and 2 invited talks covering topics on robotic assembly, applications of LLMs to robotics, human robot interaction, safe and robust path planning for autonomous drones, transfer learning, perception and tactile sensing.
- MERL made significant contributions to both the organization and the technical program of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024, which was held in Yokohama, Japan from May 13th to May 17th.
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NEWS Diego Romeres gave an invited talk at the Padua University's Seminar series on "AI in Action" Date: April 9, 2024
MERL Contact: Diego Romeres
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Dynamical Systems, Machine Learning, Optimization, RoboticsBrief- Diego Romeres, Principal Research Scientist and Team Leader in the Optimization and Robotics Team, was invited to speak as a guest lecturer in the seminar series on "AI in Action" in the Department of Management and Engineering, at the University of Padua.
The talk, entitled "Machine Learning for Robotics and Automation" described MERL's recent research on machine learning and model-based reinforcement learning applied to robotics and automation.
- Diego Romeres, Principal Research Scientist and Team Leader in the Optimization and Robotics Team, was invited to speak as a guest lecturer in the seminar series on "AI in Action" in the Department of Management and Engineering, at the University of Padua.
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- @article{Zhu2023dec,
- author = {Zhu, Xinghao and Jha, Devesh K. and Romeres, Diego and Sun, Lingfeng and Tomizuka, Masayoshi and Cherian, Anoop},
- title = {Multi-level Reasoning for Robotic Assembly: From Sequence Inference to Contact Selection},
- journal = {arXiv},
- year = 2023,
- month = dec,
- url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.10571}
- }