Rofunc: The Full Process Python Package for Robot Learning from Demonstration and Robot Manipulation

Repository address: https://github.com/Skylark0924/Rofunc
Documentation: https://rofunc.readthedocs.io/

Rofunc package focuses on the Imitation Learning (IL), Reinforcement Learning (RL) and Learning from Demonstration (LfD) for (Humanoid) Robot Manipulation. It provides valuable and convenient python functions, including demonstration collection, data pre-processing, LfD algorithms, planning, and control methods. We also provide an IsaacGym and OmniIsaacGym based robot simulator for evaluation. This package aims to advance the field by building a full-process toolkit and validation platform that simplifies and standardizes the process of demonstration data collection, processing, learning, and its deployment on robots.

• Rofunc: The Full Process Python Package for Robot Learning from Demonstration and Robot Manipulation
  • Update News 🎉🎉🎉
  • Installation
  • Documentation
  • RofuncRL
  • Star History
  • Citation
  • Related Papers
  • The Team
  • Acknowledge
    • Learning from Demonstration
    • Planning and Control

Update News 🎉🎉🎉

• [2024-01-24] 🚀 CURI Synergy-based Softhand grasping tasks are supported to be trained by RofuncRL.
• [2023-12-24] 🚀 Dexterous hand (Shadow Hand, Allegro Hand, qbSofthand) tasks are supported to be trained by RofuncRL.
• [2023-12-03] 🖼️ Segment-Anything (SAM) is supported in an interactive mode, check the examples in Visualab (segment anything, segment with prompt).
• [2023-10-31] 🚀 RofuncRL: A modular easy-to-use Reinforcement Learning sub-package designed for Robot Learning tasks is released. It has been tested with simulators like OpenAIGym, IsaacGym, OmniIsaacGym (see example gallery), and also differentiable simulators like PlasticineLab and DiffCloth.
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• If you want to know more about the update news, please refer to the changelog.

Installation

Please refer to the installation guide.

Documentation

To give you a quick overview of the pipeline of rofunc, we provide an interesting example of learning to play Taichi from human demonstration. You can find it in the Quick start section of the documentation.

RofuncRL

RofuncRL is one of the most important sub-packages of Rofunc. It is a modular easy-to-use Reinforcement Learning sub-package designed for Robot Learning tasks. It has been tested with simulators like OpenAIGym, IsaacGym, OmniIsaacGym (see example gallery), and also differentiable simulators like PlasticineLab and DiffCloth. Here is a list of robot tasks trained by RofuncRL:

Note
You can customize your own project based on RofuncRL by following the RofuncRL customize tutorial.
We also provide a RofuncRL-based repository template to generate your own repository following the RofuncRL structure by one click.
For more details, please check the documentation for RofuncRL.

The list of all supported tasks.

Tasks	Animation	Performance	ModelZoo
Ant			✅
Cartpole
Franka Cabinet			✅
Franka CubeStack
CURI Cabinet			✅
CURI CabinetImage
CURI CabinetBimanual
CURIQbSoftHand SynergyGrasp			✅
Humanoid			✅
HumanoidAMP Backflip			✅
HumanoidAMP Walk			✅
HumanoidAMP Run			✅
HumanoidAMP Dance			✅
HumanoidAMP Hop			✅
HumanoidASE GetupSwordShield			✅
HumanoidASE PerturbSwordShield			✅
HumanoidASE HeadingSwordShield			✅
HumanoidASE LocationSwordShield			✅
HumanoidASE ReachSwordShield			✅
HumanoidASE StrikeSwordShield			✅
BiShadowHand BlockStack			✅
BiShadowHand BottleCap			✅
BiShadowHand CatchAbreast			✅
BiShadowHand CatchOver2Underarm			✅
BiShadowHand CatchUnderarm			✅
BiShadowHand DoorOpenInward			✅
BiShadowHand DoorOpenOutward			✅
BiShadowHand DoorCloseInward			✅
BiShadowHand DoorCloseOutward			✅
BiShadowHand GraspAndPlace			✅
BiShadowHand LiftUnderarm			✅
BiShadowHand HandOver			✅
BiShadowHand Pen			✅
BiShadowHand PointCloud
BiShadowHand PushBlock			✅
BiShadowHand ReOrientation			✅
BiShadowHand Scissors			✅
BiShadowHand SwingCup			✅
BiShadowHand Switch			✅
BiShadowHand TwoCatchUnderarm			✅

Star History

Citation

If you use rofunc in a scientific publication, we would appreciate citations to the following paper:

@software{liu2023rofunc,
          title = {Rofunc: The Full Process Python Package for Robot Learning from Demonstration and Robot Manipulation},
          author = {Liu, Junjia and Li, Chenzui and Delehelle, Donatien and Li, Zhihao and Chen, Fei},
          year = {2023},
          publisher = {Zenodo},
          doi = {10.5281/zenodo.10016946},
          url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10016946},
          dimensions = {true},
          google_scholar_id = {0EnyYjriUFMC},
}

Related Papers

1. Robot cooking with stir-fry: Bimanual non-prehensile manipulation of semi-fluid objects (IEEE RA-L 2022 | Code)

@article{liu2022robot,
         title={Robot cooking with stir-fry: Bimanual non-prehensile manipulation of semi-fluid objects},
         author={Liu, Junjia and Chen, Yiting and Dong, Zhipeng and Wang, Shixiong and Calinon, Sylvain and Li, Miao and Chen, Fei},
         journal={IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters},
         volume={7},
         number={2},
         pages={5159--5166},
         year={2022},
         publisher={IEEE}
}

2. SoftGPT: Learn Goal-oriented Soft Object Manipulation Skills by Generative Pre-trained Heterogeneous Graph Transformer (IROS 2023｜Code coming soon)

@inproceedings{liu2023softgpt,
               title={Softgpt: Learn goal-oriented soft object manipulation skills by generative pre-trained heterogeneous graph transformer},
               author={Liu, Junjia and Li, Zhihao and Lin, Wanyu and Calinon, Sylvain and Tan, Kay Chen and Chen, Fei},
               booktitle={2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
               pages={4920--4925},
               year={2023},
               organization={IEEE}
}

3. BiRP: Learning Robot Generalized Bimanual Coordination using Relative Parameterization Method on Human Demonstration (IEEE CDC 2023 | Code)

@article{liu2023birp,
        title={BiRP: Learning Robot Generalized Bimanual Coordination using Relative Parameterization Method on Human Demonstration},
        author={Liu, Junjia and Sim, Hengyi and Li, Chenzui and Chen, Fei},
        journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.05933},
        year={2023}
}

The Team

Rofunc is developed and maintained by the CLOVER Lab (Collaborative and Versatile Robots Laboratory), CUHK.

Acknowledge

We would like to acknowledge the following projects:

Learning from Demonstration

1. pbdlib
2. Ray RLlib
3. ElegantRL
4. SKRL
5. DexterousHands

Planning and Control

1. Robotics codes from scratch (RCFS)