feat(rollout): decouple policy deployment from data recording with new lerobot-rollout CLI (#3413)

* feat(scripts): lerobot-rollout

* fix(rollout) require dataset in dagger + use duration too

* fix(docs): dagger num_episodes

* test(rollout): fix expectations

* fix(rollout): features check

* fix(rollout): device and task propagation + feature pos + warn fps + move rename_map config

* docs(rollout): edit rename_map instructions

* chore(rollout): multiple minor improvements

* chore(rollout): address coments + minor improvements

* fix(rollout): enable default

* fix(tests): default value RTCConfig

* fix(rollout): robot_observation_processor and notify_observation at policy frequency instead of interpolator rate

Co-authored-by: Pepijn <138571049+pkooij@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix(rollout): prevent relativeactions with sync inference engine

Co-authored-by: Pepijn <138571049+pkooij@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix(rollout): rtc reanchor to non normalized state

Co-authored-by: Pepijn <138571049+pkooij@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix(rollout): fixing the episode length to use hwc (#3469)

also reducing default length to 5 minutes

* feat(rollout): go back to initial position is now a config

* fix(rollout): properly propagating video_files_size_in_mb to lerobot_dataset (#3470)

* chore(rollout): note about dagger correction stage

* chore(docs): update comments and docstring

* fix(test): move rtc relative out of rollout module

* fix(rollout): address the review comments

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Co-authored-by: Pepijn <138571049+pkooij@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Maxime Ellerbach <maxime.ellerbach@huggingface.co>
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@@ -509,121 +509,42 @@ hf upload ${HF_USER}/act_so101_test${CKPT} \
## Run inference and evaluate your policy
You can use the `record` script from [`lerobot-record`](https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot/blob/main/src/lerobot/scripts/lerobot_record.py) with a policy checkpoint as input, to run inference and evaluate your policy. For instance, run this command or API example to run inference and record 10 evaluation episodes:
Use `lerobot-rollout` to deploy a trained policy on your robot. You can choose different strategies depending on your needs:
<hfoptions id="eval">
<hfoption id="Command">
<hfoption id="Base mode (no recording)">
```bash
lerobot-record \
lerobot-rollout \
--strategy.type=base \
--policy.path=${HF_USER}/my_policy \
--robot.type=so100_follower \
--robot.port=/dev/ttyACM1 \
--robot.cameras="{ up: {type: opencv, index_or_path: /dev/video10, width: 640, height: 480, fps: 30}, side: {type: intelrealsense, serial_number_or_name: 233522074606, width: 640, height: 480, fps: 30}}" \
--robot.id=my_awesome_follower_arm \
--display_data=false \
--dataset.repo_id=${HF_USER}/eval_so100 \
--dataset.single_task="Put lego brick into the transparent box" \
--dataset.streaming_encoding=true \
--dataset.encoder_threads=2 \
# --dataset.vcodec=auto \
# <- Teleop optional if you want to teleoperate in between episodes \
# --teleop.type=so100_leader \
# --teleop.port=/dev/ttyACM0 \
# --teleop.id=my_awesome_leader_arm \
--policy.path=${HF_USER}/my_policy
--task="Put lego brick into the transparent box" \
--duration=60
```
</hfoption>
<hfoption id="API example">
<!-- prettier-ignore-start -->
```python
from lerobot.cameras.opencv import OpenCVCameraConfig
from lerobot.datasets import LeRobotDataset
from lerobot.utils.feature_utils import hw_to_dataset_features
from lerobot.policies.act import ACTPolicy
from lerobot.policies import make_pre_post_processors
from lerobot.robots.so_follower import SO100Follower, SO100FollowerConfig
from lerobot.scripts.lerobot_record import record_loop
from lerobot.common.control_utils import init_keyboard_listener
from lerobot.utils.utils import log_say
from lerobot.utils.visualization_utils import init_rerun
NUM_EPISODES = 5
FPS = 30
EPISODE_TIME_SEC = 60
TASK_DESCRIPTION = "My task description"
HF_MODEL_ID = "<hf_username>/<model_repo_id>"
HF_DATASET_ID = "<hf_username>/<eval_dataset_repo_id>"
# Create the robot configuration
camera_config = {"front": OpenCVCameraConfig(index_or_path=0, width=640, height=480, fps=FPS)}
robot_config = SO100FollowerConfig(
port="/dev/tty.usbmodem58760434471", id="my_awesome_follower_arm", cameras=camera_config
)
# Initialize the robot
robot = SO100Follower(robot_config)
# Initialize the policy
policy = ACTPolicy.from_pretrained(HF_MODEL_ID)
# Configure the dataset features
action_features = hw_to_dataset_features(robot.action_features, "action")
obs_features = hw_to_dataset_features(robot.observation_features, "observation")
dataset_features = {**action_features, **obs_features}
# Create the dataset
dataset = LeRobotDataset.create(
repo_id=HF_DATASET_ID,
fps=FPS,
features=dataset_features,
robot_type=robot.name,
use_videos=True,
image_writer_threads=4,
)
# Initialize the keyboard listener and rerun visualization
_, events = init_keyboard_listener()
init_rerun(session_name="recording")
# Connect the robot
robot.connect()
preprocessor, postprocessor = make_pre_post_processors(
policy_cfg=policy,
pretrained_path=HF_MODEL_ID,
dataset_stats=dataset.meta.stats,
)
for episode_idx in range(NUM_EPISODES):
log_say(f"Running inference, recording eval episode {episode_idx + 1} of {NUM_EPISODES}")
# Run the policy inference loop
record_loop(
robot=robot,
events=events,
fps=FPS,
policy=policy,
preprocessor=preprocessor,
postprocessor=postprocessor,
dataset=dataset,
control_time_s=EPISODE_TIME_SEC,
single_task=TASK_DESCRIPTION,
display_data=True,
)
dataset.save_episode()
# Clean up
robot.disconnect()
dataset.push_to_hub()
<hfoption id="Sentry mode (with recording)">
```bash
lerobot-rollout \
--strategy.type=sentry \
--strategy.upload_every_n_episodes=5 \
--policy.path=${HF_USER}/my_policy \
--robot.type=so100_follower \
--robot.port=/dev/ttyACM1 \
--robot.cameras="{ up: {type: opencv, index_or_path: /dev/video10, width: 640, height: 480, fps: 30}, side: {type: intelrealsense, serial_number_or_name: 233522074606, width: 640, height: 480, fps: 30}}" \
--dataset.repo_id=${HF_USER}/eval_so100 \
--dataset.single_task="Put lego brick into the transparent box" \
--duration=600
```
<!-- prettier-ignore-end -->
</hfoption>
</hfoptions>
As you can see, it's almost the same command as previously used to record your training dataset. Two things changed:
The `--strategy.type` flag selects the execution mode:
1. There is an additional `--control.policy.path` argument which indicates the path to your policy checkpoint with (e.g. `outputs/train/eval_act_so101_test/checkpoints/last/pretrained_model`). You can also use the model repository if you uploaded a model checkpoint to the hub (e.g. `${HF_USER}/act_so101_test`).
2. The name of dataset begins by `eval` to reflect that you are running inference (e.g. `${HF_USER}/eval_act_so101_test`).
- `base`: Autonomous rollout with no data recording (useful for quick evaluation)
- `sentry`: Continuous recording with auto-upload (useful for large-scale evaluation)
- `highlight`: Ring buffer recording with keystroke save (useful for capturing interesting events)
- `dagger`: Human-in-the-loop data collection (see [HIL Data Collection](./hil_data_collection))
All strategies support `--inference.type=rtc` for smooth execution with slow VLA models (Pi0, Pi0.5, SmolVLA).