arXiv:2506.19212cs.RO2025-06NeurIPS被引 13

用视觉语言模型生成抓取动作骨架,让机械手学会复杂操作。

Scaffolding Dexterous Manipulation with Vision-Language Models

  • 用现成的视觉语言模型识别关键点并生成粗略动作轨迹作为引导
  • 在模拟环境中训练低层强化学习策略,精准跟踪这些粗轨迹
  • 无需人工示范或设计奖励函数,可直接迁移到真实机器人

灵巧机械手执行复杂操作至关重要,但因演示数据难收集、控制维度高而难以训练。尽管强化学习可在仿真中生成经验缓解数据瓶颈,却通常依赖精心设计的任务特定奖励函数,限制可扩展性与泛化能力。现有方法多基于参考轨迹引导探索,但获取适合灵巧手的轨迹仍具挑战。然而,精确的轨迹细节往往非必需,因强化学习最终会优化动作。我们的核心洞察是:现代视觉语言模型已具备完成任务所需的空间与语义常识知识,能有效指导探索。给定任务描述(如“打开柜子”)和视觉场景,该方法利用预训练视觉语言模型首先识别任务相关关键点(如把手、按钮),再合成手部与物体的3D运动轨迹。随后,在仿真中训练低层残差强化学习策略,以高保真度跟踪这些粗略轨迹(即“骨架”)。在涉及刚性物体与语义理解的多个模拟任务中,我们证明该方法能学习到稳健的灵巧操作策略,并展示其可零样本迁移至真实机器人,无需人类示范或手工奖励函数。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Dexterous robotic hands are essential for performing complex manipulation tasks, yet remain difficult to train due to the challenges of demonstration collection and high-dimensional control. While reinforcement learning (RL) can alleviate the data bottleneck by generating experience in simulation, it typically relies on carefully designed, task-specific reward functions, which hinder scalability and generalization. Thus, contemporary works in dexterous manipulation have often bootstrapped from reference trajectories. These trajectories specify target hand poses that guide the exploration of RL policies and object poses that enable dense, task-agnostic rewards. However, sourcing suitable trajectories - particularly for dexterous hands - remains a significant challenge. Yet, the precise details in explicit reference trajectories are often unnecessary, as RL ultimately refines the motion. Our key insight is that modern vision-language models (VLMs) already encode the commonsense spatial and semantic knowledge needed to specify tasks and guide exploration effectively. Given a task description (e.g., "open the cabinet") and a visual scene, our method uses an off-the-shelf VLM to first identify task-relevant keypoints (e.g., handles, buttons) and then synthesize 3D trajectories for hand motion and object motion. Subsequently, we train a low-level residual RL policy in simulation to track these coarse trajectories or "scaffolds" with high fidelity. Across a number of simulated tasks involving articulated objects and semantic understanding, we demonstrate that our method is able to learn robust dexterous manipulation policies. Moreover, we showcase that our method transfers to real-world robotic hands without any human demonstrations or handcrafted rewards.

灵巧操作视觉语言模型强化学习零样本迁移

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