ChatGPT for Robotics: Design Principles and Model Abilities
Authors: Sai Vemprala, Rogerio Bonatti, Arthur Bucker, Ashish Kapoor
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- Experimental study on the use of OpenAI's ChatGPT for robotics applications
- Proposal of a strategy combining prompt engineering design principles and high-level function library
- Focus on evaluating different prompt engineering techniques and dialog strategies for executing robotics tasks
- Exploration of ChatGPT's abilities in free-form dialog, parsing XML tags, synthesizing code, using task-specific prompting functions, and employing closed-loop reasoning through dialogues
- Evaluations across various tasks within the robotics domain, including logical reasoning, geometrical reasoning, mathematical reasoning, aerial navigation, manipulation, and embodied agents
- Effectiveness of ChatGPT in solving several tasks primarily through natural language instructions
- Introduction of PromptCraft as an open-sourced research tool for effective prompting schemes in robotics applications
- Integration of a sample robotics simulator with ChatGPT to facilitate user engagement
Abstract: This paper presents an experimental study regarding the use of OpenAI's ChatGPT for robotics applications. We outline a strategy that combines design principles for prompt engineering and the creation of a high-level function library which allows ChatGPT to adapt to different robotics tasks, simulators, and form factors. We focus our evaluations on the effectiveness of different prompt engineering techniques and dialog strategies towards the execution of various types of robotics tasks. We explore ChatGPT's ability to use free-form dialog, parse XML tags, and to synthesize code, in addition to the use of task-specific prompting functions and closed-loop reasoning through dialogues. Our study encompasses a range of tasks within the robotics domain, from basic logical, geometrical, and mathematical reasoning all the way to complex domains such as aerial navigation, manipulation, and embodied agents. We show that ChatGPT can be effective at solving several of such tasks, while allowing users to interact with it primarily via natural language instructions. In addition to these studies, we introduce an open-sourced research tool called PromptCraft, which contains a platform where researchers can collaboratively upload and vote on examples of good prompting schemes for robotics applications, as well as a sample robotics simulator with ChatGPT integration, making it easier for users to get started with using ChatGPT for robotics.
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