ViSkill: Value-Informed Skill Chaining for Policy Learning of Long-Horizon Tasks with Surgical Robot

This is the official PyTorch implementation of the paper "Value-Informed Skill Chaining for Policy Learning of Long-Horizon Tasks with Surgical Robot" (IROS 2023).

Prerequisites

• Ubuntu 18.04
• Python 3.7+

Installation Instructions

1. Clone this repository.

git clone --recursive https://github.com/med-air/ViSkill.git
cd ViSkill

2. Create a virtual environment

conda create -n viskill python=3.8
conda activate viskill

3. Install packages

pip3 install -e SurRoL/	# install surrol environments
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
pip3 install -e .

4. Then add one line of code at the top of gym/gym/envs/__init__.py to register SurRoL tasks:

# directory: anaconda3/envs/dex/lib/python3.8/site-packages/
import surrol.gym

Usage

Commands for ViSkill. Results will be logged to WandB. Before running the commands below, please change the wandb entity in skill_learning.yaml and skill_chaining.yaml to match your account.

We collect demonstration data for each subtask via the scripted controllers provided by SurRoL. Take the BiPegTransfer task as example:

mkdir SurRoL/surrol/data/demo
python SurRoL/surrol/data/data_generation_bipegtransfer.py --env BiPegTransfer-v0 --subtask grasp
python SurRoL/surrol/data/data_generation_bipegtransfer.py --env BiPegTransfer-v0 --subtask handover
python SurRoL/surrol/data/data_generation_bipegtransfer.py --env BiPegTransfer-v0 --subtask release

Training Commands

• Train subtask policies:

mpirun -np 8 python -m train_sl seed=1 subtask=grasp
mpirun -np 8 python -m train_sl seed=1 subtask=handover
mpirun -np 8 python -m train_sl seed=1 subtask=release

• Train chaining policies:

mpirun -np 8 python -m train_sc.py model_seed=1 task=BiPegTransfer-v0

Starting to Modify the Code

Modifying the hyperparameters

The default hyperparameters are defined in viskill/configs, where skill_learning.yaml and skill_chaining.yaml define the experiment settings of learning subtask policies and chaining policies, respectively, and YAML file in the directory sl_agent and sc_agent define the hyperparameters of each method. Modifications to these parameters can be directly defined in the experiment or agent config files, or passed through the terminal command.

Adding a new RL algorithm

The core RL algorithms are implemented within the BaseAgent class. For adding a new skill chaining algorithm, a new file needs to be created in viskill/agents and BaseAgent needs to be subclassed. In particular, any required networks (actor, critic etc) need to be constructed and the update(...) function and get_action(...) needs to be overwritten. When implementation is done, a registration is needed in factory.py and a config file should also be made in sc_agent to specify the model parameters.

Code Navigation

viskill
  |- agents                # implements core algorithms in agent classes
  |- components            # reusable infrastructure for model training
  |    |- checkpointer.py  # handles saving + loading of model checkpoints
  |    |- environment.py   # environment wrappers for SurRoL environments
  |    |- normalizer.py    # normalizer for vectorized input
  |    |- logger.py        # implements core logging functionality using wandB
  |
  |- configs               # experiment configs 
  |    |- skill_learning.yaml   # configs for subtask policy learning
  |    |- skill_chaining.yaml   # configs for chaining policy learning
  |    |- sl_agent         # configs for demonstration-guided RL algorithm
  |    |- sc_agent         # configs for skill chaining algorithm
  |    |- hier_agent       # configs for (synthetic) hierachical agent
  |
  |- modules               # reusable architecture components
  |    |- critic.py        # basic critic implementations (eg MLP-based critic)
  |    |- distributions.py # pytorch distribution utils for density model
  |    |- policy.py    	   # basic actor implementations
  |    |- replay_buffer.py # her replay buffer with future sampling strategy
  |    |- sampler.py       # rollout sampler for collecting experience
  |    |- subnetworks.py   # basic networks
  |
  |- trainers              # main model training script, builds all components + runs training loop and logging
  |
  |- utils                 # general and rl utilities, pytorch / visualization utilities etc
  |- train_sl.py           # experiment launcher for skill learning
  |- train_sc.py           # experiment launcher for skill chaining

Contact

For any questions, please feel free to email taou.cs13@gmail.com