Learning to Transfer In-Hand Manipulations Using a Greedy Shape Curriculum

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2023
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The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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In-hand object manipulation is challenging to simulate due to complex contact dynamics, non-repetitive finger gaits, and the need to indirectly control unactuated objects. Further adapting a successful manipulation skill to new objects with different shapes and physical properties is a similarly challenging problem. In this work, we show that natural and robust in-hand manipulation of simple objects in a dynamic simulation can be learned from a high quality motion capture example via deep reinforcement learning with careful designs of the imitation learning problem. We apply our approach on both single-handed and two-handed dexterous manipulations of diverse object shapes and motions. We then demonstrate further adaptation of the example motion to a more complex shape through curriculum learning on intermediate shapes morphed between the source and target object. While a naive curriculum of progressive morphs often falls short, we propose a simple greedy curriculum search algorithm that can successfully apply to a range of objects such as a teapot, bunny, bottle, train, and elephant.
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CCS Concepts: Computing methodologies -> Physical simulation; Motion capture; Reinforcement learning; Learning from demonstrations

        
@article{
10.1111:cgf.14741
, journal = {Computer Graphics Forum}, title = {{
Learning to Transfer In-Hand Manipulations Using a Greedy Shape Curriculum
}}, author = {
Zhang, Yunbo
and
Clegg, Alexander
and
Ha, Sehoon
and
Turk, Greg
and
Ye, Yuting
}, year = {
2023
}, publisher = {
The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
}, ISSN = {
1467-8659
}, DOI = {
10.1111/cgf.14741
} }
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