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AdaFold: Adapting Folding Trajectories of Cloths via Feedback-Loop Manipulation
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Intelligent systems, Robotics, Perception and Learning, RPL.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9125-6615
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Intelligent systems, Robotics, Perception and Learning, RPL.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3827-3824
Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA..
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Intelligent systems, Robotics, Perception and Learning, RPL.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2965-2953
2024 (English)In: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, E-ISSN 2377-3766, Vol. 9, no 11, p. 9183-9190Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

We present AdaFold, a model-based feedback-loop framework for optimizing folding trajectories. AdaFold extracts a particle-based representation of cloth from RGB-D images and feeds back the representation to a model predictive control to re-plan folding trajectory at every time-step. A key component of AdaFold that enables feedback-loop manipulation is the use of semantic descriptors extracted from geometric features. These descriptors enhance the particle representation of the cloth to distinguish between ambiguous point clouds of differently folded cloths. Our experiments demonstrate AdaFold's ability to adapt folding trajectories of cloths with varying physical properties and generalize from simulated training to real-world execution.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC , 2024. Vol. 9, no 11, p. 9183-9190
Keywords [en]
Trajectory optimization, Shape, Manipulation planning, perception for grasping and manipulation, RGB-D perception, semantic scene understanding
National Category
Robotics and automation
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-354332DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2024.3436329ISI: 001316209900014Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85199779805OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-354332DiVA, id: diva2:1903396
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Available from: 2024-10-04 Created: 2024-10-04 Last updated: 2025-02-09Bibliographically approved
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1. Adapting to Variations in Textile Properties for Robotic Manipulation
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2025 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

In spite of the rapid advancements in AI, tasks like laundry, tidying, and general household assistance remain challenging for robots due to their limited capacity to generalize manipulation skills across different variations of everyday objects.Manipulation of textiles, in particular, poses unique challenges due to their deformable nature and complex dynamics.  In this thesis, we aim to enhance the generalization of robotic manipulation skills for textiles by addressing how robots can adapt their strategies based on the physical properties of deformable objects. We begin by identifying key factors of variation in textiles relevant to manipulation, drawing insights from overlooked taxonomies in the textile industry. The core challenge of adaptation is addressed by leveraging the synergies between interactive perception and cloth dynamics models. These are utilized to tackle two fundamental estimation problems to achieve adaptation: property identification, as these properties define the system’s dynamic and how the object responds to external forces, and state estimation, which provides the feedback necessary for closing the action-perception loop.  To identify object properties, we investigate how combining exploratory actions, such as pulling and twisting, with sensory feedback can enhance a robot’s understanding of textile characteristics. Central to this investigation is the development of an adaptation module designed to encode textile properties from recent observations, enabling data-driven dynamics models to adjust their predictions accordingly to the perceived properties. To address state estimation challenges arising from cloth self-occlusions, we explore semantic descriptors and 3D tracking methods that integrate geometric observations, such as point clouds, with visual cues from RGB data.Finally, we integrate these modeling and perceptual components into a model-based manipulation framework and evaluate the generalization of the proposed method across a diverse set of real-world textiles. The results, demonstrating enhanced generalization, underscore the potential of adapting the manipulation in response to variations in textiles' properties and highlight the critical role of the action-perception loop in achieving adaptability.

Abstract [sv]

Trots de snabba framstegen inom AI förblir uppgifter som att tvätta, städa och allmän hushållshjälp utmanande för robotar på grund av deras begränsade förmåga att generalisera manipulationsfärdigheter över olika variationer av vardagsföremål. Manipulation av textilier utgör i synnerhet unika utmaningar på grund av deras deformerbara natur och komplexa dynamik.I denna avhandling syftar vi till att förbättra generaliseringen av robotiska manipulationsfärdigheter för textilier genom att undersöka hur robotar kan anpassa sina strategier baserat på de fysiska egenskaperna hos deformerbara objekt. Vi börjar med att identifiera nyckelfaktorer för variation i textilier som är relevanta för manipulation och drar insikter från förbisedda taxonomier inom textilindustrin.Den centrala utmaningen med anpassning adresseras genom att utnyttja synergierna mellan interaktiv perception och modeller för textildynamik. Dessa används för att lösa två grundläggande estimeringsproblem för att uppnå anpassning: egenskapsidentifiering, eftersom dessa egenskaper definierar systemets dynamik och hur objektet reagerar på yttre krafter, samt tillståndsestimering, som ger den återkoppling som krävs för att stänga åtgärds-perceptionsslingan. För att identifiera objektets egenskaper undersöker vi hur kombinationen av utforskande handlingar, såsom att dra och vrida, med sensorisk återkoppling kan förbättra robotens förståelse för textilens egenskaper. Centralt i denna undersökning är utvecklingen av en anpassningsmodul utformad för att koda textilens egenskaper från nyligen gjorda observationer, vilket gör det möjligt för datadrivna dynamikmodeller att justera sina förutsägelser utifrån de uppfattade egenskaperna.För att hantera utmaningar med tillståndsestimering som uppstår vid textilens självocklusioner utforskar vi semantiska deskriptorer och 3D-spårningsmetoder som integrerar geometriska observationer, såsom punktmoln, med visuella ledtrådar från RGB-data.Slutligen integrerar vi dessa modellerings- och perceptionskomponenter i ett modellbaserat manipulationsramverk och utvärderar generaliseringen av den föreslagna metoden på ett brett urval av textilier i verkliga miljöer. Resultaten, som visar förbättrad generalisering, understryker potentialen i att anpassa manipulation till variationer i textilernas egenskaper och framhäver den avgörande rollen för åtgärds-perceptionsslingan i att uppnå anpassningsförmåga.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 2025. p. 82
Series
TRITA-EECS-AVL ; 2025:1
Keywords
Textile Variations, Robotic Manipulation, Generalization, Adaptation, Textila Variationer, Robotmanipulation, Generalisering, Anpassning
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Computer graphics and computer vision Computer Sciences
Research subject
Computer Science
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urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-357508 (URN)978-91-8106-125-3 (ISBN)
Public defence
2025-01-14, https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/66979575369, F3 (Flodis), Lindstedtsvägen 26 & 28, KTH Campus, Stockholm, 13:00 (English)
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