Google patents robot brain that plans moves from camera views
This patent describes a machine learning system that helps robots decide what to do next based on what they see. The model looks at camera data to predict a specific list of actions and the exact order in which the robot should perform them to finish a task.
In the filing’s own words
Training and/or using a machine learning model for performing robotic tasks is disclosed herein. In many implementations, an environment-conditioned action sequence prediction model is used to determine a set of actions as well as a corresponding particular order for the actions for the robot to perform to complete the task. In many implementations, each action in the set of actions has a corresponding action network used to control the robot in performing the action.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method implemented by one or more processors, the method comprising: training an environment-conditioned action sequence prediction model to process an instance of vision data captured by a vision component of an agent to generate a set of predicted actions for performing a task and a particular order for performing the predicted actions of the set, wherein training the environment-conditioned action sequence prediction model comprises: selecting a training sequence of task vision data of the agent performing the task, where each instance of task vision data has a corresponding label indicating an action in the training sequence; processing the selected training sequence using a portion of the environment-conditioned action sequence prediction model to generate an output sequence of embeddings; selecting a given embedding in the output sequence of embeddings and a corresponding label from the training sequence; processing the selected given embedding using an additional portion of the environment-conditioned action sequence prediction model to generate predicted action output; updating one or more portions of the environment-conditioned action sequence prediction model based on comparing the predicted action output and the corresponding action label; subsequent to training the environment-conditioned action sequence prediction model: processing a given instance of vision data captured by the vision component of the agent using the environment-conditioned action sequence prediction model to generate given output; and causing the agent to perform one or more actions based on the given output.
Facts
- Company
- Google (GOOGLE LLC)
- Official title
- Determining environment-conditioned action sequences for robotic tasks
- Patent number
- US12766734B2
- Application number
- 18936720
- Filed
- Nov 4, 2024
- Granted
- Oct 20, 2026
- Inventors
- 4
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
B25J 9/1697 Operations & transportB25J 9/161 Operations & transportB25J 9/163 Operations & transportB25J 9/1664 Operations & transportB25J 9/1669 Operations & transportB25J 9/1679 Operations & transportMore from Google in Robots & automation
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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