VOMMI: Collecting and Leveraging Portable Demonstrations for Mobile Manipulation
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MAVP (Map-Aware Visuomotor Policies) is a framework that enhances mobile manipulation by predicting explicit base-pose targets and tracking them with localisation feedback. It reconstructs a static map from teleoperated demonstrations, expressing base trajectories in a shared map frame to provide consistent spatial supervision. During execution, the policy uses RGB observations, joint states, and the robot’s current map-frame base pose to jointly predict target base poses, arm actions, and gripper actions, while a low‑level controller corrects deviations using feedforward motion and pose error feedback. Pose‑noise augmentation during training further improves robustness, and MAVP outperforms unanchored velocity control across six real‑world tasks and three policy families.
HIL-UMI is a policy-guided Universal Manipulation Interface that enables robot‑free, human‑in‑the‑loop post‑training of vision‑language‑action models. By querying the current policy during handheld demonstrations and using an Energy Score to detect out‑of‑distribution states, it selectively collects new data and refines a progress‑based advantage estimator. The updated estimator then drives advantage‑conditioned behavioral cloning, improving performance on long‑horizon and precise manipulation tasks while reducing per‑frame collection time compared to HG‑DAgger.
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