3 code implementations • 19 Oct 2023 • Xavier Puig, Eric Undersander, Andrew Szot, Mikael Dallaire Cote, Tsung-Yen Yang, Ruslan Partsey, Ruta Desai, Alexander William Clegg, Michal Hlavac, So Yeon Min, Vladimír Vondruš, Theophile Gervet, Vincent-Pierre Berges, John M. Turner, Oleksandr Maksymets, Zsolt Kira, Mrinal Kalakrishnan, Jitendra Malik, Devendra Singh Chaplot, Unnat Jain, Dhruv Batra, Akshara Rai, Roozbeh Mottaghi
We present Habitat 3. 0: a simulation platform for studying collaborative human-robot tasks in home environments.
no code implementations • ICCV 2023 • Xiaoyu Huang, Dhruv Batra, Akshara Rai, Andrew Szot
We present Skill Transformer, an approach for solving long-horizon robotic tasks by combining conditional sequence modeling and skill modularity.
no code implementations • 31 May 2023 • Andrew Szot, Unnat Jain, Dhruv Batra, Zsolt Kira, Ruta Desai, Akshara Rai
We present the task of "Social Rearrangement", consisting of cooperative everyday tasks like setting up the dinner table, tidying a house or unpacking groceries in a simulated multi-agent environment.
1 code implementation • ICCV 2023 • Rishi Hazra, Brian Chen, Akshara Rai, Nitin Kamra, Ruta Desai
The goal in EgoTV is to verify the execution of tasks from egocentric videos based on the natural language description of these tasks.
no code implementations • 14 Dec 2022 • Karl Pertsch, Ruta Desai, Vikash Kumar, Franziska Meier, Joseph J. Lim, Dhruv Batra, Akshara Rai
We propose an approach for semantic imitation, which uses demonstrations from a source domain, e. g. human videos, to accelerate reinforcement learning (RL) in a different target domain, e. g. a robotic manipulator in a simulated kitchen.
no code implementations • 6 Jul 2022 • Vidhi Jain, Yixin Lin, Eric Undersander, Yonatan Bisk, Akshara Rai
Every home is different, and every person likes things done in their particular way.
no code implementations • 29 Jun 2022 • Chenyu Yang, Guo Ning Sue, Zhongyu Li, Lizhi Yang, Haotian Shen, Yufeng Chi, Akshara Rai, Jun Zeng, Koushil Sreenath
We develop and demonstrate one of the first collaborative autonomy framework that is able to move a cable-towed load, which is too heavy to move by a single robot, through narrow spaces with real-time feedback and reactive planning in experiments.
no code implementations • 10 Mar 2022 • Shuxiao Chen, Bike Zhang, Mark W. Mueller, Akshara Rai, Koushil Sreenath
Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a promising approach to developing controllers for quadrupedal robots.
no code implementations • 25 Feb 2021 • Yixin Lin, Austin S. Wang, Eric Undersander, Akshara Rai
Manipulation tasks, like loading a dishwasher, can be seen as a sequence of spatial constraints and relationships between different objects.
no code implementations • 18 Oct 2020 • Neha Das, Sarah Bechtle, Todor Davchev, Dinesh Jayaraman, Akshara Rai, Franziska Meier
Scaling model-based inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) to real robotic manipulation tasks with unknown dynamics remains an open problem.
1 code implementation • 10 Mar 2020 • Kristen Morse, Neha Das, Yixin Lin, Austin S. Wang, Akshara Rai, Franziska Meier
In both settings, the structured and state-dependent learned losses improve online adaptation speed, when compared to standard, state-independent loss functions.
1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2020 • Benjamin Letham, Roberto Calandra, Akshara Rai, Eytan Bakshy
We show empirically that properly addressing these issues significantly improves the efficacy of linear embeddings for BO on a range of problems, including learning a gait policy for robot locomotion.
1 code implementation • L4DC 2020 • Giovanni Sutanto, Austin S. Wang, Yixin Lin, Mustafa Mukadam, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Akshara Rai, Franziska Meier
The recursive Newton-Euler Algorithm (RNEA) is a popular technique for computing the dynamics of robots.
Robotics
1 code implementation • 10 Jul 2019 • Rika Antonova, Akshara Rai, Tianyu Li, Danica Kragic
We propose a model and architecture for a sequential variational autoencoder that embeds the space of simulated trajectories into a lower-dimensional space of latent paths in an unsupervised way.
no code implementations • 15 Apr 2019 • Sarah Bechtle, Yixin Lin, Akshara Rai, Ludovic Righetti, Franziska Meier
In this work, we propose a model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) framework that combines Bayesian modeling of the system dynamics with curious iLQR, an iterative LQR approach that considers model uncertainty.
Model-based Reinforcement Learning reinforcement-learning +1
no code implementations • 27 Jul 2017 • Rika Antonova, Akshara Rai, Christopher G. Atkeson
First, we demonstrate improvement in sample efficiency when optimizing a 5-dimensional controller on the ATRIAS robot hardware.
no code implementations • 15 Oct 2016 • Rika Antonova, Akshara Rai, Christopher G. Atkeson
We develop a distance metric for bipedal locomotion that enhances the sample-efficiency of Bayesian Optimization and use it to train a 16 dimensional neuromuscular model for planar walking.