EvolvingGrasp: Evolutionary Grasp Generation via Efficient Preference Alignment
This addresses the challenge of enabling robots to learn from experience in unbounded real-world scenarios, though it appears incremental as it builds on evolutionary and preference-based methods.
The paper tackles the problem of dexterous robotic hands struggling to generalize in complex environments by proposing EvolvingGrasp, an evolutionary grasp generation method that continuously enhances grasping performance through efficient preference alignment, achieving state-of-the-art results in grasp success rate and sampling efficiency across four benchmark datasets.
Dexterous robotic hands often struggle to generalize effectively in complex environments due to the limitations of models trained on low-diversity data. However, the real world presents an inherently unbounded range of scenarios, making it impractical to account for every possible variation. A natural solution is to enable robots learning from experience in complex environments, an approach akin to evolution, where systems improve through continuous feedback, learning from both failures and successes, and iterating toward optimal performance. Motivated by this, we propose EvolvingGrasp, an evolutionary grasp generation method that continuously enhances grasping performance through efficient preference alignment. Specifically, we introduce Handpose wise Preference Optimization (HPO), which allows the model to continuously align with preferences from both positive and negative feedback while progressively refining its grasping strategies. To further enhance efficiency and reliability during online adjustments, we incorporate a Physics-aware Consistency Model within HPO, which accelerates inference, reduces the number of timesteps needed for preference finetuning, and ensures physical plausibility throughout the process. Extensive experiments across four benchmark datasets demonstrate state of the art performance of our method in grasp success rate and sampling efficiency. Our results validate that EvolvingGrasp enables evolutionary grasp generation, ensuring robust, physically feasible, and preference-aligned grasping in both simulation and real scenarios.