Affordance-Centric Policy Learning: Sample Efficient and Generalisable Robot Policy Learning using Affordance-Centric Task Frames
Affordances are central to robotic manipulation, where most tasks can be simplified to interactions with task-specific regions on objects. By focusing on these key regions, we can abstract away task-irrelevant information, simplifying the learning process, and enhancing generalisation. In this paper, we propose an affordance-centric policy-learning approach that centres and appropriately \textit{orients} a \textit{task frame} on these affordance regions allowing us to achieve both \textbf{intra-category invariance} -- where policies can generalise across different instances within the same object category -- and \textbf{spatial invariance} -- which enables consistent performance regardless of object placement in the environment. We propose a method to leverage existing generalist large vision models to extract and track these affordance frames, and demonstrate that our approach can learn manipulation tasks using behaviour cloning from as little as 10 demonstrations, with equivalent generalisation to an image-based policy trained on 305 demonstrations. We provide video demonstrations on our project site: https://affordance-policy.github.io.
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