Official Implementation of Matcha Agent 🍵~🤖

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🔔 News

• $\color{red}{\text{[2023-09-29]}}$ The full codes are released! Codes are re-organised and tested with Vicuna-13b model.
• $\text{[2023-07-01]}$ We open-source codes except the robot's configurations (because the NICOL robot is not publically available at this time).

Contents

• 🎥 Demo Video
• 🔨 Install Dependencies
  • 🕹 Robotic
    • Install RLBench and NICOL Robot
    • Run NICOL demo with RLBench tasks
  • ️🌇 Vision
    • Install ViLD requirements
    • Launch Flask server for ViLD
  • 🔉 Sound
    • Install sound module requirements
    • Offline Neural Network Training for Sound Classification.
    • Launch sound module as a server
  • 🦙 Large Language Models (LLMs) Configuration
• 🍵~🤖 Run Matcha-agent
• 🐞 Error Debuging
• 🖋️ Acknowledgement
• 🔗 Citation

🎥 Demo Video

• Matcha agent manipulates objects with different sound, weights and haptics to determine their materials.
• NICOL robot from Knowledge Technology Group, University of Hamburg.
• In CoppeliaSim simulator.
• Please turn on your speaker to hear the sound!

🔨 Install Dependencies

🕹 Robotic

The experimental task is designed on top of RLBench, but with a replacement of our own NICOL robot, a desktop-based humanoid robot.

Install RLBench and NICOL Robot

git clone git@github.com:xf-zhao/Matcha-agent.git
cd NICOL
pip install -r requiremetns.txt

Run NICOL demo with RLBench tasks

python demo.py

🌇 Vision

The visual detection is done with ViLD, an open-vocabulary detection model. Despite of the simplicity of the vision in our demo, we use ViLD with a consideration of better generalization.

Install ViLD requirements

Since the library dependencies of ViLD may highly conflict with other packages installed, we encourage to install ViLD model within an separated environment and launch it as a http server.

conda create -n vild python=3.9
conda activate vild
pip install -r requirements.txt
# Download weights
gsutil cp -r gs://cloud-tpu-checkpoints/detection/projects/vild/colab/image_path_v2 ./

Launch Flask server for ViLD

sh launch_vild_server.sh

The ViLD server will be ready under: 0.0.0.0:8848/api/vild

🔉 Sound

The sound module requires PyTorch, TorchAudio and other sound related packages that may conflict with the robotic and vision configurations. Like for vision module, we also deploy this module within an independent environment.

Install sound module requirements

conda create -n sound python=3.9
conda activate sound
pip install -r requirements.txt

Offline Neural Network Training for Sound Classification.

We train a sound classification neural network.

python train.py

This training process includes

• Load the auditory train/test dataset (.wav)
• Train a neuralnetwork with augmented train dataset
• Evaluate on the test dataset
• Save the best performance model weights (best_model.ckpt), which will be loaded for the sound server as API. See also this blog for reference.

Launch sound module as a server

sh launch_sound_server.sh

The sound server will be ready under: 0.0.0.0:8849/api/sound

🦙 Large Language Models (LLMs) Configuration

In the original Matcha-agent paper, we use openai API text-davinci-003 and text-ada-001 as the backend LLMs. Nowadays, there are many open-sourced LLMs available. In the version v1.0 release, we use Vicuna-13b model followed with this FastChat doc.

Note that the LLM is worked in a completions mode instead of chat completions mode, i.e. no role-plays since we manually introduce roles in the prompts.

🍵~🤖 Run Matcha-agent

python main.py

Optional parameters:

• engine: The backend LLM to run, such as [text-davinci-003, Vicuna-13b, gpt-3.5-turbo, ...] ...

🐞 Error Debuging

• If an error ImportError: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version 'GLIBCXX_3.4.29' not found. occurs:

  conda install libgcc
  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/home/${YOUR_USER_NAME}/anaconda3/envs/nicol/lib
  

  see also: BVLC/caffe#4953

⭐ Acknowledgement

The 3D mesh of NICOL robot configurations of the robot can be found in the *.ttt file. We thank seed robotics for authorizing us sharing and making the RH8D hand models publicly available in this repertory.

🔗 Citation

@misc{zhao2023chat,
      title={Chat with the Environment: Interactive Multimodal Perception Using Large Language Models}, 
      author={Xufeng Zhao and Mengdi Li and Cornelius Weber and Muhammad Burhan Hafez and Stefan Wermter},
      year={2023},
      eprint={2303.08268},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.RO}
}