Universal Manipulation Interface
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Universal Manipulation Interface
Overview :
The Universal Manipulation Interface (UMI) is a data collection and strategy learning framework that enables direct transfer of skills from human demonstrations on-site to deployable robot strategies. UMI combines handheld grips with meticulous interface design to achieve portable, low-cost, and informative data collection, used for challenging two-handed and dynamic operation demonstrations. To promote deployable strategy learning, UMI incorporates well-designed strategy interfaces with real-time delay matching and relative trajectory action representation. Thus, the learning strategies are hardware-agnostic and can be deployed on multiple robot platforms. Equipped with these features, the UMI framework opens up new capabilities for robot manipulation, allowing for generalized dynamic, two-handed, precise, and long-duration behaviors, achievable with zero adjustments. We have demonstrated the versatility and effectiveness of UMI through comprehensive real-world experiments, where UMI strategies trained with various human demonstrations achieved zero-shot generalization in new environments and with new objects.
Target Users :
["Robot skill learning","Handheld devices with external sensors","Human-robot interaction interface design"]
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Use Cases
Collecting various daily actions using UMI, such as throwing a ball, folding clothes, washing dishes, etc.
Deploy trained strategies directly on different robot platforms without calibration
Using CLIP pre-trained ViT as a visual encoder to make strategies more responsive to changes
Features
Portable data collection, ready in 2 minutes
Camera-based action representation, no calibration required, robustness
Fast data collection, each demonstration in 30 seconds
Zero-shot generalization, deployable in new environments
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