Fleet-DAgger: Interactive Robot Fleet Learning with Scalable Human Supervision

Ryan Hoque, Lawrence Yunliang Chen, Satvik Sharma, Karthik Dharmarajan, Brijen Thananjeyan, Pieter Abbeel, Ken Goldberg
Proceedings of The 6th Conference on Robot Learning, PMLR 205:368-380, 2023.

Abstract

Commercial and industrial deployments of robot fleets at Amazon, Nimble, Plus One, Waymo, and Zoox query remote human teleoperators when robots are at risk or unable to make task progress. With continual learning, interventions from the remote pool of humans can also be used to improve the robot fleet control policy over time. A central question is how to effectively allocate limited human attention. Prior work addresses this in the single-robot, single-human setting; we formalize the Interactive Fleet Learning (IFL) setting, in which multiple robots interactively query and learn from multiple human supervisors. We propose Return on Human Effort (ROHE) as a new metric and Fleet-DAgger, a family of IFL algorithms. We present an open-source IFL benchmark suite of GPU-accelerated Isaac Gym environments for standardized evaluation and development of IFL algorithms. We compare a novel Fleet-DAgger algorithm to 4 baselines with 100 robots in simulation. We also perform a physical block-pushing experiment with 4 ABB YuMi robot arms and 2 remote humans. Experiments suggest that the allocation of humans to robots significantly affects the performance of the fleet, and that the novel Fleet-DAgger algorithm can achieve up to 8.8x higher ROHE than baselines. See https://tinyurl.com/fleet-dagger for supplemental material.

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BibTeX
@InProceedings{pmlr-v205-hoque23a, title = {Fleet-DAgger: Interactive Robot Fleet Learning with Scalable Human Supervision}, author = {Hoque, Ryan and Chen, Lawrence Yunliang and Sharma, Satvik and Dharmarajan, Karthik and Thananjeyan, Brijen and Abbeel, Pieter and Goldberg, Ken}, booktitle = {Proceedings of The 6th Conference on Robot Learning}, pages = {368--380}, year = {2023}, editor = {Liu, Karen and Kulic, Dana and Ichnowski, Jeff}, volume = {205}, series = {Proceedings of Machine Learning Research}, month = {14--18 Dec}, publisher = {PMLR}, pdf = {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v205/hoque23a/hoque23a.pdf}, url = {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v205/hoque23a.html}, abstract = {Commercial and industrial deployments of robot fleets at Amazon, Nimble, Plus One, Waymo, and Zoox query remote human teleoperators when robots are at risk or unable to make task progress. With continual learning, interventions from the remote pool of humans can also be used to improve the robot fleet control policy over time. A central question is how to effectively allocate limited human attention. Prior work addresses this in the single-robot, single-human setting; we formalize the Interactive Fleet Learning (IFL) setting, in which multiple robots interactively query and learn from multiple human supervisors. We propose Return on Human Effort (ROHE) as a new metric and Fleet-DAgger, a family of IFL algorithms. We present an open-source IFL benchmark suite of GPU-accelerated Isaac Gym environments for standardized evaluation and development of IFL algorithms. We compare a novel Fleet-DAgger algorithm to 4 baselines with 100 robots in simulation. We also perform a physical block-pushing experiment with 4 ABB YuMi robot arms and 2 remote humans. Experiments suggest that the allocation of humans to robots significantly affects the performance of the fleet, and that the novel Fleet-DAgger algorithm can achieve up to 8.8x higher ROHE than baselines. See https://tinyurl.com/fleet-dagger for supplemental material.} }
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%0 Conference Paper %T Fleet-DAgger: Interactive Robot Fleet Learning with Scalable Human Supervision %A Ryan Hoque %A Lawrence Yunliang Chen %A Satvik Sharma %A Karthik Dharmarajan %A Brijen Thananjeyan %A Pieter Abbeel %A Ken Goldberg %B Proceedings of The 6th Conference on Robot Learning %C Proceedings of Machine Learning Research %D 2023 %E Karen Liu %E Dana Kulic %E Jeff Ichnowski %F pmlr-v205-hoque23a %I PMLR %P 368--380 %U https://proceedings.mlr.press/v205/hoque23a.html %V 205 %X Commercial and industrial deployments of robot fleets at Amazon, Nimble, Plus One, Waymo, and Zoox query remote human teleoperators when robots are at risk or unable to make task progress. With continual learning, interventions from the remote pool of humans can also be used to improve the robot fleet control policy over time. A central question is how to effectively allocate limited human attention. Prior work addresses this in the single-robot, single-human setting; we formalize the Interactive Fleet Learning (IFL) setting, in which multiple robots interactively query and learn from multiple human supervisors. We propose Return on Human Effort (ROHE) as a new metric and Fleet-DAgger, a family of IFL algorithms. We present an open-source IFL benchmark suite of GPU-accelerated Isaac Gym environments for standardized evaluation and development of IFL algorithms. We compare a novel Fleet-DAgger algorithm to 4 baselines with 100 robots in simulation. We also perform a physical block-pushing experiment with 4 ABB YuMi robot arms and 2 remote humans. Experiments suggest that the allocation of humans to robots significantly affects the performance of the fleet, and that the novel Fleet-DAgger algorithm can achieve up to 8.8x higher ROHE than baselines. See https://tinyurl.com/fleet-dagger for supplemental material.
APA
Hoque, R., Chen, L.Y., Sharma, S., Dharmarajan, K., Thananjeyan, B., Abbeel, P. & Goldberg, K.. (2023). Fleet-DAgger: Interactive Robot Fleet Learning with Scalable Human Supervision. Proceedings of The 6th Conference on Robot Learning, in Proceedings of Machine Learning Research 205:368-380 Available from https://proceedings.mlr.press/v205/hoque23a.html.

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