arXiv:2505.05287cs.ROcs.LG2025-05被引 9

让机器人像人一样左右手协同操作,提升灵巧抓取效率。

Morphologically Symmetric Reinforcement Learning for Ambidextrous Bimanual Manipulation

  • 利用对称性设计神经网络,让双臂动作互学互用。
  • 在6个模拟任务中表现优于基线,实机部署成功率达100%。
  • 适合需要双手协作的复杂灵巧操作场景。

人类在粗略操控中自然表现出左右手对称性,能轻松镜像左右手的动作。双臂机器人也具有这种对称性,应借此实现无差别双臂操作。与人类常依赖惯用手进行精细操作不同,机器人应具备同等水平的双臂灵巧能力。为此,我们提出SYMDEX(对称灵巧性)框架,利用机器人固有的双臂对称性作为归纳偏置,将复杂双臂操作任务分解为单臂子任务,并为每只手训练专用策略。通过等变神经网络,一只手臂的经验可自动用于另一只手臂。随后将子策略提炼为全局双臂通用策略,不依赖手与任务的绑定关系。我们在六个挑战性模拟任务上评估了SYMDEX,其中两个在真实机器人上成功部署。该方法在左右手角色不同的复杂任务中显著优于基线。我们进一步将系统扩展至四臂配置,对称感知策略有效实现了多臂协作与协调。结果表明,以结构对称性作为归纳偏置,可提升策略学习的样本效率、鲁棒性与泛化能力。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Humans naturally exhibit bilateral symmetry in their gross manipulation skills, effortlessly mirroring simple actions between left and right hands. Bimanual robots-which also feature bilateral symmetry-should similarly exploit this property to perform tasks with either hand. Unlike humans, who often favor a dominant hand for fine dexterous skills, robots should ideally execute ambidextrous manipulation with equal proficiency. To this end, we introduce SYMDEX (SYMmetric DEXterity), a reinforcement learning framework for ambidextrous bi-manipulation that leverages the robot's inherent bilateral symmetry as an inductive bias. SYMDEX decomposes complex bimanual manipulation tasks into per-hand subtasks and trains dedicated policies for each. By exploiting bilateral symmetry via equivariant neural networks, experience from one arm is inherently leveraged by the opposite arm. We then distill the subtask policies into a global ambidextrous policy that is independent of the hand-task assignment. We evaluate SYMDEX on six challenging simulated manipulation tasks and demonstrate successful real-world deployment on two of them. Our approach strongly outperforms baselines on complex task in which the left and right hands perform different roles. We further demonstrate SYMDEX's scalability by extending it to a four-arm manipulation setup, where our symmetry-aware policies enable effective multi-arm collaboration and coordination. Our results highlight how structural symmetry as inductive bias in policy learning enhances sample efficiency, robustness, and generalization across diverse dexterous manipulation tasks.

双臂操作强化学习对称性灵巧抓取

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