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Yuxuan Hu, Xiangyu Chen, Chuhao Zhou, Yuxi Liu, Gen Li, Jindou Jia, Jianfei Yang

Researchers at Nanyang Technological University developed the Trace-Focused Diffusion Policy (TF-DP) to resolve multi-modal action ambiguity in long-horizon robotic manipulation. TF-DP integrates historical motion via projected traces and a trace-focused field, achieving 91.67% average success in complex tasks, enhancing robustness to visual disturbances, and maintaining computational efficiency.

Key insights

  • Explicitly encoding the robot's execution history as a visual trace significantly resolves multi-modal action ambiguity, enabling policies to follow correct temporal orders.
  • A trace-focused perceptual field enhances robustness against visual disturbances by spatially emphasizing task-relevant regions derived from the historical motion path.
  • Projecting execution traces into the visual observation space offers a computationally efficient method for incorporating rich historical context without substantially increasing network parameters or latency.

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