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About this paper
Pablo Ortega-Kral, Eliot Xing, Arthur Bucker, Vernon Luk, Junseo Kim, Owen Kwon, Angchen Xie, Nikhil Sobanbabu and 8 more
RIO is an open-source, Python-based framework providing flexible, real-time robot input/output for cross-embodiment robot learning, using a modular architecture for hardware-agnostic control. It achieved a significantly reduced observation-to-action latency of 130.3 ms, compared to 581.2 ms for an existing framework, and successfully deployed various learning policies on diverse robot platforms.
Key insights
- A modular 'Node' and 'Middleware' architecture enables hardware-agnostic application logic, allowing the same control code to function across various robot stations by solely modifying configuration.
- Achieving low observation-to-action latency and smooth real-time robot control is critical and can be realized through asynchronous policy inference and efficient middleware selection for communication.
- Standardizing data formats and state representations across diverse robot morphologies is essential for streamlining data collection, fine-tuning, and deployment in cross-embodiment learning scenarios.
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