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SayPlan: Scalable Task Planning Using 3D Scene Graphs (arxiv.org)
1 point by gjstein on Jul 13, 2023 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: A robot planner lets a language model search a hierarchical 3D map for relevant rooms, then uses a path planner and fixes bad steps with simulated feedback. It handled long tasks in a 3-floor, 36-room building, where feeding the whole map overwhelms the model.

Abstract · SayPlan: Grounding Large Language Models using 3D Scene Graphs for Scalable Robot Task Planning

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive results in developing generalist planning agents for diverse tasks. However, grounding these plans in expansive, multi-floor, and multi-room environments presents a significant challenge for robotics. We introduce SayPlan, a scalable approach to LLM-based, large-scale task planning for robotics using 3D scene graph (3DSG) representations. To ensure the scalability of our approach, we: (1) exploit the hierarchical nature of 3DSGs to allow LLMs to conduct a 'semantic search' for task-relevant subgraphs from a smaller, collapsed representation of the full graph; (2) reduce the planning horizon for the LLM by integrating a classical path planner and (3) introduce an 'iterative replanning' pipeline that refines the initial plan using feedback from a scene graph simulator, correcting infeasible actions and avoiding planning failures. We evaluate our approach on two large-scale environments spanning up to 3 floors and 36 rooms with 140 assets and objects and show that our approach is capable of grounding large-scale, long-horizon task plans from abstract, and natural language instruction for a mobile manipulator robot to execute. We provide real robot video demonstrations on our project page https://sayplan.github.io.

Krishan Rana, Jesse Haviland, Sourav Garg, Jad Abou-Chakra, Ian Reid, Niko Suenderhauf
arXiv:2307.06135 · cs.RO, cs.AI · submitted Jul 12, 2023 · updated Sep 27, 2023
abstract · pdf · Accepted for oral presentation at the Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2023. Project page can be found here: https://sayplan.github.io

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