用几何先验增强机器人模型,实现无需大量安全演示的安全决策
Towards Safe Robot Foundation Models Using Inductive Biases
- 在基础策略后添加安全层,通过几何约束强制动作安全
- 实验表明可避免碰撞,且在动态任务中保持高速与约束合规
- 适合需要高安全性的通用机器人系统部署
安全是机器人系统在现实世界部署中的关键要求。尽管当前机器人基础模型在多种任务中展现出良好泛化能力,却未能解决安全性问题。现有方法依赖大规模示范数据让安全行为自然涌现,但存在两大缺陷:一是基于监督学习的行为克隆策略无正式安全保证;二是缺乏显式安全约束时,需极大量示范才能近似安全行为。为此,我们提出将机器人基础模型与几何归纳偏置结合,利用ATACOM安全层,在基础策略后对状态转移施加动作约束,确保安全。该方法可在不提供大量安全示范、不进行特定安全微调的情况下,为通用策略提供形式化安全保证。实验表明,该方法在经典抓取任务中有效避免与无关物体碰撞,在动态任务如机器人曲棍球环境中,仍能生成满足复杂任务与关节空间约束的高速轨迹。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Safety is a critical requirement for the real-world deployment of robotic systems. Unfortunately, while current robot foundation models show promising generalization capabilities across a wide variety of tasks, they fail to address safety, an important aspect for ensuring long-term operation. Current robot foundation models assume that safe behavior should emerge by learning from a sufficiently large dataset of demonstrations. However, this approach has two clear major drawbacks. Firstly, there are no formal safety guarantees for a behavior cloning policy trained using supervised learning. Secondly, without explicit knowledge of any safety constraints, the policy may require an unreasonable number of additional demonstrations to even approximate the desired constrained behavior. To solve these key issues, we show how we can instead combine robot foundation models with geometric inductive biases using ATACOM, a safety layer placed after the foundation policy that ensures safe state transitions by enforcing action constraints. With this approach, we can ensure formal safety guarantees for generalist policies without providing extensive demonstrations of safe behavior, and without requiring any specific fine-tuning for safety. Our experiments show that our approach can be beneficial both for classical manipulation tasks, where we avoid unwanted collisions with irrelevant objects, and for dynamic tasks, such as the robot air hockey environment, where we can generate fast trajectories respecting complex tasks and joint space constraints.
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