Paper ID: 2412.01791

DextrAH-RGB: Visuomotor Policies to Grasp Anything with Dexterous Hands

Ritvik Singh, Arthur Allshire, Ankur Handa, Nathan Ratliff, Karl Van Wyk

One of the most important yet challenging skills for a robot is the task of dexterous grasping of a diverse range of objects. Much of the prior work is limited by the speed, dexterity, or reliance on depth maps. In this paper, we introduce DextrAH-RGB, a system that can perform dexterous arm-hand grasping end2end from stereo RGB input. We train a teacher fabric-guided policy (FGP) in simulation through reinforcement learning that acts on a geometric fabric action space to ensure reactivity and safety. We then distill this teacher FGP into a stereo RGB-based student FGP in simulation. To our knowledge, this is the first work that is able to demonstrate robust sim2real transfer of an end2end RGB-based policy for complex, dynamic, contact-rich tasks such as dexterous grasping. Our policies are able to generalize grasping to novel objects with unseen geometry, texture, or lighting conditions during training. Videos of our system grasping a diverse range of unseen objects are available at \url{this https URL}

Submitted: Nov 27, 2024