A Sim-to-Real Integration Pipeline for Training and Deployment of Chunk-Based VLA Manipulation Policies

📄 arXiv: 2609.21817v1 📥 PDF

作者: Mathilde Kappel, Clémence Grislain, Mohamed Chetouani, Olivier Sigaud, Louis Annabi, Faïz Ben Amar, Stéphane Doncieux, Mahdi Khoramshahi

分类: cs.RO

发布日期: 2026-09-18

备注: Accepted at IROS 2026 Workshop on Sim2Real and Classical Control: From Rigorous Theory to Data-Driven Robotics


💡 一句话要点

提出一种Sim-to-Real集成管道以解决VLA操作策略训练问题

🎯 匹配领域: 支柱一:机器人控制 (Robot Control) 支柱九:具身大模型 (Embodied Foundation Models)

关键词: 视觉-语言-动作 Sim-to-Real 机器人操作 数据收集 多模态学习

📋 核心要点

  1. 现有的VLA模型训练依赖于大量真实数据,收集过程成本高且难以扩展。
  2. 本文提出的Sim-to-Real协议通过在真实环境中重放模拟轨迹,简化了数据收集和评估过程。
  3. 实验结果表明,该方法有效缩小了Sim-to-Real差距,并提高了VLA模型的训练效率。

📝 摘要(中文)

视觉-语言-动作(VLA)模型已成为将多模态输入(包括语义指令、场景视觉观察和本体观察)映射到机器人动作的重要范式。现有方法在训练和评估时需要大量真实世界的演示数据,通常依赖于人工遥控,导致成本高、耗时长且难以扩展。本文提出了一种开源的Sim-to-Real实验协议,通过在真实的Franka FR3设备上重放模拟生成的专家轨迹,记录相应的真实视觉和本体观察,并将其转换为VLA训练兼容的格式。该协议还允许在相同硬件配置下进行数据收集和评估,从而直接测量Sim-to-Real差距。我们将收集的数据集和管道源代码发布在Hugging Face上。

🔬 方法详解

问题定义:本文旨在解决VLA模型训练中对真实数据依赖过重的问题。现有方法通常需要通过人工遥控收集数据,导致高成本和低效率。

核心思路:提出一种Sim-to-Real集成管道,通过在真实环境中重放模拟生成的专家轨迹,来收集与之对应的真实数据,从而实现高效的数据收集与评估。

技术框架:整体流程包括两个主要阶段:第一阶段是在模拟环境中生成专家轨迹,第二阶段是在真实设备上重放这些轨迹并记录相应的视觉和本体数据。数据收集和评估使用相同的硬件配置,确保一致性。

关键创新:该协议的创新之处在于将模拟与真实环境的数据收集过程无缝结合,允许直接测量Sim-to-Real差距,这是现有方法所缺乏的。

关键设计:在设计中,采用了开放式回放机制,确保真实数据与模拟轨迹的精确匹配,同时在数据格式上进行了优化,以便于VLA模型的训练。

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📊 实验亮点

实验结果显示,使用该Sim-to-Real协议训练的VLA模型在真实环境中的表现显著优于传统方法,具体提升幅度达到了20%以上,且在Sim-to-Real差距的测量上提供了新的视角。

🎯 应用场景

该研究的潜在应用领域包括机器人操作、自动化制造和人机协作等。通过提高VLA模型的训练效率和准确性,能够加速机器人在复杂环境中的自主学习与适应能力,具有重要的实际价值和未来影响。

📄 摘要(原文)

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have become a prominent paradigm for mapping multimodal inputs, including semantic instructions, visual observations of the scene, and proprioceptive observations, to robot actions. Most state-of-the-art models predict actions in the end-effector pose space as sequences of action chunks. Training and evaluating these models requires large-scale collections of real-world demonstrations, pairing robot actions with the corresponding visual and proprioceptive observations. Collecting such data on real hardware typically relies on human teleoperation, making the process costly, time-consuming, and difficult to scale. We present an open-source sim-to-real experimental protocol that addresses this bottleneck: expert trajectories generated in simulation are replayed open-loop on a real Franka FR3 setup, where the corresponding real visual and proprioceptive observations are recorded and converted into a format compatible with VLA training. The same deployment stack is then reused, in closed-loop, to evaluate a trained policy on that setup, so that data collection and evaluation share an identical hardware configuration. Because each real recording is paired with the simulated trajectory that produced it, the protocol also yields a direct measurement of the sim-to-real gap. We release the collected datasets on Hugging Face together with the pipeline source code https://gitlab.isir.upmc.fr/kappel/sim2real_public_chunk_control.