Nvidia Corporation

Tucker Ryer Hermans

Dieter Fox

Miles Macklin

Balakumar Sundaralingam

Christopher Jason Paxton

Yashraj Shyam Narang

Isabella Huang

Jonathan Tremblay

Fabio Tozeto Ramos

Ankur Handa

Clemens Eppner

Weiyu Liu

Visak Chadalavada Vijay Kumar

Valts Blukis

Pratyusha Sharma

Approaches presented herein provide for a framework to integrate human provided feedback in natural language to update a robot planning cost or value. The natural language feedback may be modeled as a cost or value associated with completing a task assigned to the robot. This cost or value may then be added to an initial task cost or value to update one or more actions to be performed by the robot. The framework can be applied to both real work and simulated environments where the robot may receive instructions, in natural language, that either provide a goal, modify an existing goal, or provide constraints to actions to achieve an existing goal.

Interactive cost corrections with natural language feedback

Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to perform a grasp of on object using an articulated robotic hand equipped with one or more tactile sensors. In at least one embodiment, a machine-learned model trained in simulation to grasp a cuboid using signals received from tactile sensors is applied to grasping objects of various shapes in a real-world environment.

Reinforcement learning of tactile grasp policies

Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to generate a predicted outcome of an object resulting from a robotic component applying a force. In at least one embodiment, a predicted outcome of an object resulting from a robotic component applying a force is generated based on, for example, a neural network.

Predicting grasp outcomes

A robotic system is provided for performing rearrangement tasks guided by a natural language instruction. The system can include a number of neural networks used to determine a selected rearrangement of the objects in accordance with the natural language instruction. A target object predictor network processes a point cloud of the scene and the natural language instruction to identify a set of query objects that are to-be-rearranged. A language conditioned prior network processes the point cloud, natural language instruction, and the set of query objects to sample a distribution of rearrangements to generate a number of sets of pose offsets for the set of query objects. A discriminator network then processes the samples to generate scores for the samples. The samples may be refined until a score for at least one of the sample generated by the discriminator network is above a threshold value.

Semantic rearrangement of unknown objects from natural language commands

Candidate grasping models of a deformable object are applied to generate a simulation of a response of the deformable object to the grasping model. From the simulation, grasp performance metrics for stress, deformation controllability, and instability of the response to the grasping model are obtained, and the grasp performance metrics are correlated with robotic grasp features.

Method for assessing the quality of a robotic grasp on 3D deformable objects

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