Visually-Grounded Library of Behaviors for
Manipulating Diverse Objects across
Diverse Configurations and Views
We propose a method for manipulating diverse objects across a wide range of initial and goal configurations and camera placements. We disentangle the standard image-to-action mapping into two separate modules: (1) a behavior selector which conditions on intrinsic and semantically-rich object appearance features to select the behaviors that can successfully perform the desired tasks on the object in hand, and (2) a library of behaviors each of which conditions on extrinsic and abstract object properties to predict actions to execute over time. Our framework outperforms various learning and non-learning based baselines in both simulated and real robot tasks.
Visually-Grounded Library of Behaviors for
Manipulating Diverse Objects across
Diverse Configurations and Views

We propose a method for manipulating diverse objects across a wide range of initial and goal configurations and camera placements. We disentangle the standard image-to-action mapping into two separate modules: (1) a behavior selector which conditions on intrinsic and semantically-rich object appearance features to select the behaviors that can successfully perform the desired tasks on the object in hand, and (2) a library of behaviors each of which conditions on extrinsic and abstract object properties to predict actions to execute over time. Our framework outperforms various learning and non-learning based baselines in both simulated and real robot tasks.