7.3ROMar 31
CLaD: Planning with Grounded Foresight via Cross-Modal Latent DynamicsAndrew Jeong, Jaemin Kim, Sebin Lee et al.
Robotic manipulation involves kinematic and semantic transitions that are inherently coupled via underlying actions. However, existing approaches plan within either semantic or latent space without explicitly aligning these cross-modal transitions. To address this, we propose CLaD, a framework that models how proprioceptive and semantic states jointly evolve under actions through asymmetric cross-attention that allows kinematic transitions to query semantic ones. CLaD predicts grounded latent foresights via self-supervised objectives with EMA target encoders and auxiliary reconstruction losses, preventing representation collapse while anchoring predictions to observable states. Predicted foresights are modulated with observations to condition a diffusion policy for action generation. On LIBERO-LONG benchmark, CLaD achieves 94.7\% success rate, competitive with large VLAs with significantly fewer parameters.
9.9ROJun 22
Distilling Collaborative Dynamics into Latent Space for Implicit Coordination in Decentralized Multi-Agent ManipulationChanyoung Park, Minsung Yoon, Andrew Jeong et al.
Multi-arm manipulation demands precise spatiotemporal coordination, yet many centralized approaches scale poorly as team size increases. To address this, we propose CLS-DP, a decentralized multi-agent framework that enables implicit coordination under partial observability without shared global views, explicit state information, or inter-agent communication. Under the centralized training and decentralized execution (CTDE) paradigm, CLS-DP distills privileged multi-agent dynamics into a latent space. At deployment, each agent infers a collaborative latent from its local RGB observation and a shared task instruction; it then conditions the diffusion denoising process on this latent. This design enables implicit coordination with a per-agent cost independent of team size. Across six RoboFactory benchmark tasks spanning two to four agents, CLS-DP achieves a 38% mean success rate, outperforming the best centralized baseline (20%) and a decentralized ablation without the collaborative latent (9%). It also maintains superior parameter efficiency across all agent configurations. Attribution maps show that an agent conditioned on the collaborative latent places high attribution on the joints and grippers of both itself and its teammates throughout execution. This suggests that the learned latent efficiently encodes collaborative dynamics from local observation, which facilitates implicit coordination in realistic settings characterized by partial observability.
2.0CVJul 12, 2024
KGpose: Keypoint-Graph Driven End-to-End Multi-Object 6D Pose Estimation via Point-Wise Pose VotingAndrew Jeong
This letter presents KGpose, a novel end-to-end framework for 6D pose estimation of multiple objects. Our approach combines keypoint-based method with learnable pose regression through `keypoint-graph', which is a graph representation of the keypoints. KGpose first estimates 3D keypoints for each object using an attentional multi-modal feature fusion of RGB and point cloud features. These keypoints are estimated from each point of point cloud and converted into a graph representation. The network directly regresses 6D pose parameters for each point through a sequence of keypoint-graph embedding and local graph embedding which are designed with graph convolutions, followed by rotation and translation heads. The final pose for each object is selected from the candidates of point-wise predictions. The method achieves competitive results on the benchmark dataset, demonstrating the effectiveness of our model. KGpose enables multi-object pose estimation without requiring an extra localization step, offering a unified and efficient solution for understanding geometric contexts in complex scenes for robotic applications.