机器人社区已经开始严重依赖越来越逼真的3D模拟器,以便在大量数据上进行大规模培训机器人。但是,一旦机器人部署在现实世界中,仿真差距以及现实世界的变化(例如,灯,物体位移)导致错误。在本文中,我们介绍了SIM2Realviz,这是一种视觉分析工具,可以帮助专家了解并减少机器人EGO-POSE估计任务的这种差距,即使用训练型模型估计机器人的位置。 Sim2Realviz显示了给定模型的详细信息以及在模拟和现实世界中的实例的性能。专家可以识别在给定位置影响模型预测的环境差异,并通过与模型假设的直接交互来探索来解决它。我们详细介绍了工具的设计,以及与对平均偏差的回归利用以及如何解决的案例研究以及如何解决,以及模型如何被诸如自行车等地标的消失的扰动。
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We present a retrospective on the state of Embodied AI research. Our analysis focuses on 13 challenges presented at the Embodied AI Workshop at CVPR. These challenges are grouped into three themes: (1) visual navigation, (2) rearrangement, and (3) embodied vision-and-language. We discuss the dominant datasets within each theme, evaluation metrics for the challenges, and the performance of state-of-the-art models. We highlight commonalities between top approaches to the challenges and identify potential future directions for Embodied AI research.
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移动机器人的视觉导航经典通过SLAM加上最佳规划,最近通过实现作为深网络的端到端培训。虽然前者通常仅限于航点计划,但即使在真实的物理环境中已经证明了它们的效率,后一种解决方案最常用于模拟中,但已被证明能够学习更复杂的视觉推理,涉及复杂的语义规则。通过实际机器人在物理环境中导航仍然是一个开放问题。端到端的培训方法仅在模拟中进行了彻底测试,实验涉及实际机器人的实际机器人在简化的实验室条件下限制为罕见的性能评估。在这项工作中,我们对真实物理代理的性能和推理能力进行了深入研究,在模拟中培训并部署到两个不同的物理环境。除了基准测试之外,我们提供了对不同条件下不同代理商培训的泛化能力的见解。我们可视化传感器使用以及不同类型信号的重要性。我们展示了,对于Pointgoal Task,一个代理在各种任务上进行预先培训,并在目标环境的模拟版本上进行微调,可以达到竞争性能,而无需建模任何SIM2重传,即通过直接从仿真部署培训的代理即可一个真正的物理机器人。
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Bridging the 'reality gap' that separates simulated robotics from experiments on hardware could accelerate robotic research through improved data availability. This paper explores domain randomization, a simple technique for training models on simulated images that transfer to real images by randomizing rendering in the simulator. With enough variability in the simulator, the real world may appear to the model as just another variation. We focus on the task of object localization, which is a stepping stone to general robotic manipulation skills. We find that it is possible to train a real-world object detector that is accurate to 1.5 cm and robust to distractors and partial occlusions using only data from a simulator with non-realistic random textures. To demonstrate the capabilities of our detectors, we show they can be used to perform grasping in a cluttered environment. To our knowledge, this is the first successful transfer of a deep neural network trained only on simulated RGB images (without pre-training on real images) to the real world for the purpose of robotic control.
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本文介绍了Cerberus机器人系统系统,该系统赢得了DARPA Subterranean挑战最终活动。出席机器人自主权。由于其几何复杂性,降解的感知条件以及缺乏GPS支持,严峻的导航条件和拒绝通信,地下设置使自动操作变得特别要求。为了应对这一挑战,我们开发了Cerberus系统,该系统利用了腿部和飞行机器人的协同作用,再加上可靠的控制,尤其是为了克服危险的地形,多模式和多机器人感知,以在传感器退化,以及在传感器退化的条件下进行映射以及映射通过统一的探索路径计划和本地运动计划,反映机器人特定限制的弹性自主权。 Cerberus基于其探索各种地下环境及其高级指挥和控制的能力,表现出有效的探索,对感兴趣的对象的可靠检测以及准确的映射。在本文中,我们报告了DARPA地下挑战赛的初步奔跑和最终奖项的结果,并讨论了为社区带来利益的教训所面临的亮点和挑战。
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这项调查回顾了对基于视觉的自动驾驶系统进行行为克隆训练的解释性方法。解释性的概念具有多个方面,并且需要解释性的驾驶强度是一种安全至关重要的应用。从几个研究领域收集贡献,即计算机视觉,深度学习,自动驾驶,可解释的AI(X-AI),这项调查可以解决几点。首先,它讨论了从自动驾驶系统中获得更多可解释性和解释性的定义,上下文和动机,以及该应用程序特定的挑战。其次,以事后方式为黑盒自动驾驶系统提供解释的方法是全面组织和详细的。第三,详细介绍和讨论了旨在通过设计构建更容易解释的自动驾驶系统的方法。最后,确定并检查了剩余的开放挑战和潜在的未来研究方向。
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Training embodied agents in simulation has become mainstream for the embodied AI community. However, these agents often struggle when deployed in the physical world due to their inability to generalize to real-world environments. In this paper, we present Phone2Proc, a method that uses a 10-minute phone scan and conditional procedural generation to create a distribution of training scenes that are semantically similar to the target environment. The generated scenes are conditioned on the wall layout and arrangement of large objects from the scan, while also sampling lighting, clutter, surface textures, and instances of smaller objects with randomized placement and materials. Leveraging just a simple RGB camera, training with Phone2Proc shows massive improvements from 34.7% to 70.7% success rate in sim-to-real ObjectNav performance across a test suite of over 200 trials in diverse real-world environments, including homes, offices, and RoboTHOR. Furthermore, Phone2Proc's diverse distribution of generated scenes makes agents remarkably robust to changes in the real world, such as human movement, object rearrangement, lighting changes, or clutter.
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We present Habitat, a platform for research in embodied artificial intelligence (AI). Habitat enables training embodied agents (virtual robots) in highly efficient photorealistic 3D simulation. Specifically, Habitat consists of: (i) Habitat-Sim: a flexible, high-performance 3D simulator with configurable agents, sensors, and generic 3D dataset handling. Habitat-Sim is fast -when rendering a scene from Matterport3D, it achieves several thousand frames per second (fps) running single-threaded, and can reach over 10,000 fps multi-process on a single GPU. (ii) Habitat-API: a modular high-level library for end-toend development of embodied AI algorithms -defining tasks (e.g. navigation, instruction following, question answering), configuring, training, and benchmarking embodied agents.These large-scale engineering contributions enable us to answer scientific questions requiring experiments that were till now impracticable or 'merely' impractical. Specifically, in the context of point-goal navigation: (1) we revisit the comparison between learning and SLAM approaches from two recent works [20,16] and find evidence for the opposite conclusion -that learning outperforms SLAM if scaled to an order of magnitude more experience than previous investigations, and (2) we conduct the first cross-dataset generalization experiments {train, test} × {Matterport3D, Gibson} for multiple sensors {blind, RGB, RGBD, D} and find that only agents with depth (D) sensors generalize across datasets. We hope that our open-source platform and these findings will advance research in embodied AI.
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自治机器人目前是最受欢迎的人工智能问题之一,在过去十年中,从自动驾驶汽车和人形系统到交付机器人和无人机,这是一项最受欢迎的智能问题。部分问题是获得一个机器人,以模仿人类的感知,我们的视觉感,用诸如神经网络等数学模型用相机和大脑的眼睛替换眼睛。开发一个能够在没有人为干预的情况下驾驶汽车的AI和一个小型机器人在城市中递送包裹可能看起来像不同的问题,因此来自感知和视觉的观点来看,这两个问题都有几种相似之处。我们目前的主要解决方案通过使用计算机视觉技术,机器学习和各种算法来实现对环境感知的关注,使机器人理解环境或场景,移动,调整其轨迹并执行其任务(维护,探索,等。)无需人为干预。在这项工作中,我们从头开始开发一个小型自动车辆,能够仅使用视觉信息理解场景,通过工业环境导航,检测人员和障碍,或执行简单的维护任务。我们审查了基本问题的最先进问题,并证明了小规模采用的许多方法类似于来自特斯拉或Lyft等公司的真正自动驾驶汽车中使用的方法。最后,我们讨论了当前的机器人和自主驾驶状态以及我们在这一领域找到的技术和道德限制。
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Semantic navigation is necessary to deploy mobile robots in uncontrolled environments like our homes, schools, and hospitals. Many learning-based approaches have been proposed in response to the lack of semantic understanding of the classical pipeline for spatial navigation, which builds a geometric map using depth sensors and plans to reach point goals. Broadly, end-to-end learning approaches reactively map sensor inputs to actions with deep neural networks, while modular learning approaches enrich the classical pipeline with learning-based semantic sensing and exploration. But learned visual navigation policies have predominantly been evaluated in simulation. How well do different classes of methods work on a robot? We present a large-scale empirical study of semantic visual navigation methods comparing representative methods from classical, modular, and end-to-end learning approaches across six homes with no prior experience, maps, or instrumentation. We find that modular learning works well in the real world, attaining a 90% success rate. In contrast, end-to-end learning does not, dropping from 77% simulation to 23% real-world success rate due to a large image domain gap between simulation and reality. For practitioners, we show that modular learning is a reliable approach to navigate to objects: modularity and abstraction in policy design enable Sim-to-Real transfer. For researchers, we identify two key issues that prevent today's simulators from being reliable evaluation benchmarks - (A) a large Sim-to-Real gap in images and (B) a disconnect between simulation and real-world error modes - and propose concrete steps forward.
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我们提出了一种新的四管齐下的方法,在文献中首次建立消防员的情境意识。我们构建了一系列深度学习框架,彼此之叠,以提高消防员在紧急首次响应设置中进行的救援任务的安全性,效率和成功完成。首先,我们使用深度卷积神经网络(CNN)系统,以实时地分类和识别来自热图像的感兴趣对象。接下来,我们将此CNN框架扩展了对象检测,跟踪,分割与掩码RCNN框架,以及具有多模级自然语言处理(NLP)框架的场景描述。第三,我们建立了一个深入的Q学习的代理,免受压力引起的迷失方向和焦虑,能够根据现场消防环境中观察和存储的事实来制定明确的导航决策。最后,我们使用了一种低计算无监督的学习技术,称为张量分解,在实时对异常检测进行有意义的特征提取。通过这些临时深度学习结构,我们建立了人工智能系统的骨干,用于消防员的情境意识。要将设计的系统带入消防员的使用,我们设计了一种物理结构,其中处理后的结果被用作创建增强现实的投入,这是一个能够建议他们所在地的消防员和周围的关键特征,这对救援操作至关重要在手头,以及路径规划功能,充当虚拟指南,以帮助迷彩的第一个响应者恢复安全。当组合时,这四种方法呈现了一种新颖的信息理解,转移和综合方法,这可能会大大提高消防员响应和功效,并降低寿命损失。
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Current learning machines have successfully solved hard application problems, reaching high accuracy and displaying seemingly "intelligent" behavior. Here we apply recent techniques for explaining decisions of state-of-the-art learning machines and analyze various tasks from computer vision and arcade games. This showcases a spectrum of problem-solving behaviors ranging from naive and short-sighted, to wellinformed and strategic. We observe that standard performance evaluation metrics can be oblivious to distinguishing these diverse problem solving behaviors. Furthermore, we propose our semi-automated Spectral Relevance Analysis that provides a practically effective way of characterizing and validating the behavior of nonlinear learning machines. This helps to assess whether a learned model indeed delivers reliably for the problem that it was conceived for. Furthermore, our work intends to add a voice of caution to the ongoing excitement about machine intelligence and pledges to evaluate and judge some of these recent successes in a more nuanced manner.
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本文提出了一种新颖的方法,用于在具有复杂拓扑结构的地下领域的搜索和救援行动中自动合作。作为CTU-Cras-Norlab团队的一部分,拟议的系统在DARPA SubT决赛的虚拟轨道中排名第二。与专门为虚拟轨道开发的获奖解决方案相反,该建议的解决方案也被证明是在现实世界竞争极为严峻和狭窄的环境中飞行的机上实体无人机的强大系统。提出的方法可以使无缝模拟转移的无人机团队完全自主和分散的部署,并证明了其优于不同环境可飞行空间的移动UGV团队的优势。该论文的主要贡献存在于映射和导航管道中。映射方法采用新颖的地图表示形式 - 用于有效的风险意识长距离计划,面向覆盖范围和压缩的拓扑范围的LTVMAP领域,以允许在低频道通信下进行多机器人合作。这些表示形式与新的方法一起在导航中使用,以在一般的3D环境中可见性受限的知情搜索,而对环境结构没有任何假设,同时将深度探索与传感器覆盖的剥削保持平衡。所提出的解决方案还包括一条视觉感知管道,用于在没有专用GPU的情况下在5 Hz处进行四个RGB流中感兴趣的对象的板上检测和定位。除了参与DARPA SubT外,在定性和定量评估的各种环境中,在不同的环境中进行了广泛的实验验证,UAV系统的性能得到了支持。
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从“Internet AI”的时代到“体现AI”的时代,AI算法和代理商出现了一个新兴范式转变,其中不再从主要来自Internet策划的图像,视频或文本的数据集。相反,他们通过与与人类类似的Enocentric感知来通过与其环境的互动学习。因此,对体现AI模拟器的需求存在大幅增长,以支持各种体现的AI研究任务。这种越来越多的体现AI兴趣是有利于对人工综合情报(AGI)的更大追求,但对这一领域并无一直存在当代和全面的调查。本文旨在向体现AI领域提供百科全书的调查,从其模拟器到其研究。通过使用我们提出的七种功能评估九个当前体现的AI模拟器,旨在了解模拟器,以其在体现AI研究和其局限性中使用。最后,本文调查了体现AI - 视觉探索,视觉导航和体现问题的三个主要研究任务(QA),涵盖了最先进的方法,评估指标和数据集。最后,随着通过测量该领域的新见解,本文将为仿真器 - 任务选择和建议提供关于该领域的未来方向的建议。
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我们考虑将移动机器人导航到具有视觉传感器的未知环境中的问题,在该环境中,机器人和传感器都无法访问全局定位信息,并且仅使用第一人称视图图像。虽然基于传感器网络的先前工作使用明确的映射和计划技术,并且经常得到外部定位系统的帮助,但我们提出了一种基于视觉的学习方法,该方法利用图形神经网络(GNN)来编码和传达相关的视点信息到移动机器人。在导航期间,机器人以模型为指导,我们通过模仿学习训练以近似最佳的运动原语,从而预测有效的成本(目标)。在我们的实验中,我们首先证明了具有各种传感器布局的以前看不见的环境的普遍性。仿真结果表明,通过利用传感器和机器人之间的通信,我们可以达到$ 18.1 \%$ $的成功率,同时将路径弯路的平均值降低$ 29.3 \%$,并且可变性降低了$ 48.4 \%$ $。这是在不需要全局地图,定位数据或传感器网络预校准的情况下完成的。其次,我们将模型从模拟到现实世界进行零拍传输。为此,我们训练一个“翻译器”模型,该模型在{}真实图像和模拟图像之间转换,以便可以直接在真实的机器人上使用导航策略(完全在模拟中训练),而无需其他微调。 。物理实验证明了我们在各种混乱的环境中的有效性。
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Figure 1: A five-fingered humanoid hand trained with reinforcement learning manipulating a block from an initial configuration to a goal configuration using vision for sensing.
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使用移动操纵器来整理家庭环境,在机器人技术中提出了各种挑战,例如适应大型现实世界的环境变化,以及在人类面前的安全和强大的部署。2021年9月举行的全球竞赛,对真正的家庭环境中的整理任务进行了基准测试,重要的是,对全面的系统性能进行了测试。对于此挑战,我们开发了整个家庭服务机器人系统,该机器人系统利用数据驱动的方法来适应众多的方法在执行过程中发生的边缘案例,而不是经典的手动预编程解决方案。在本文中,我们描述了提出的机器人系统的核心成分,包括视觉识别,对象操纵和运动计划。我们的机器人系统赢得了二等奖,验证了数据驱动的机器人系统在家庭环境中移动操作的有效性和潜力。
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这项工作研究了图像目标导航问题,需要通过真正拥挤的环境引导具有嘈杂传感器和控制的机器人。最近的富有成效的方法依赖于深度加强学习,并学习模拟环境中的导航政策,这些环境比真实环境更简单。直接将这些训练有素的策略转移到真正的环境可能非常具有挑战性甚至危险。我们用由四个解耦模块组成的分层导航方法来解决这个问题。第一模块在机器人导航期间维护障碍物映射。第二个将定期预测实时地图上的长期目标。第三个计划碰撞命令集以导航到长期目标,而最终模块将机器人正确靠近目标图像。四个模块是单独开发的,以适应真实拥挤的情景中的图像目标导航。此外,分层分解对导航目标规划,碰撞避免和导航结束预测的学习进行了解耦,这在导航训练期间减少了搜索空间,并有助于改善以前看不见的真实场景的概括。我们通过移动机器人评估模拟器和现实世界中的方法。结果表明,我们的方法优于多种导航基线,可以在这些方案中成功实现导航任务。
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Two less addressed issues of deep reinforcement learning are (1) lack of generalization capability to new target goals, and (2) data inefficiency i.e., the model requires several (and often costly) episodes of trial and error to converge, which makes it impractical to be applied to real-world scenarios. In this paper, we address these two issues and apply our model to the task of target-driven visual navigation. To address the first issue, we propose an actor-critic model whose policy is a function of the goal as well as the current state, which allows to better generalize. To address the second issue, we propose AI2-THOR framework, which provides an environment with highquality 3D scenes and physics engine. Our framework enables agents to take actions and interact with objects. Hence, we can collect a huge number of training samples efficiently.We show that our proposed method (1) converges faster than the state-of-the-art deep reinforcement learning methods, (2) generalizes across targets and across scenes, (3) generalizes to a real robot scenario with a small amount of fine-tuning (although the model is trained in simulation), ( 4) is end-to-end trainable and does not need feature engineering, feature matching between frames or 3D reconstruction of the environment.The supplementary video can be accessed at the following link: https://youtu.be/SmBxMDiOrvs.
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