DynaMem: Online Dynamic Spatio-Semantic Memory for Open World Mobile
  Manipulation
Authors: name: Peiqi Liu; name: Zhanqiu Guo; name: Mohit Warke; name: Soumith Chintala; name: Chris Paxton; name: Nur Muhammad Mahi Shafiullah; name: Lerrel Pinto
Published: 2024-11-07 18:59:27

Abstract: Significant progress has been made in open-vocabulary mobile manipulation,
where the goal is for a robot to perform tasks in any environment given a
natural language description. However, most current systems assume a static
environment, which limits the system's applicability in real-world scenarios
where environments frequently change due to human intervention or the robot's
own actions. In this work, we present DynaMem, a new approach to open-world
mobile manipulation that uses a dynamic spatio-semantic memory to represent a
robot's environment. DynaMem constructs a 3D data structure to maintain a
dynamic memory of point clouds, and answers open-vocabulary object localization
queries using multimodal LLMs or open-vocabulary features generated by
state-of-the-art vision-language models. Powered by DynaMem, our robots can
explore novel environments, search for objects not found in memory, and
continuously update the memory as objects move, appear, or disappear in the
scene. We run extensive experiments on the Stretch SE3 robots in three real and
nine offline scenes, and achieve an average pick-and-drop success rate of 70%
on non-stationary objects, which is more than a 2x improvement over
state-of-the-art static systems. Our code as well as our experiment and
deployment videos are open sourced and can be found on our project website:
https://dynamem.github.io/