A Formal Framework for Robot Construction Problems: A Hybrid Planning Approach

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Auteurs principaux: Ahmad, Faseeh, Erdem, Esra, Patoglu, Volkan
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Publié: 2019
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author Ahmad, Faseeh
Erdem, Esra
Patoglu, Volkan
author_facet Ahmad, Faseeh
Erdem, Esra
Patoglu, Volkan
contents We study robot construction problems where multiple autonomous robots rearrange stacks of prefabricated blocks to build stable structures. These problems are challenging due to ramifications of actions, true concurrency, and requirements of supportedness of blocks by other blocks and stability of the structure at all times. We propose a formal hybrid planning framework to solve a wide range of robot construction problems, based on Answer Set Programming. This framework not only decides for a stable final configuration of the structure, but also computes the order of manipulation tasks for multiple autonomous robots to build the structure from an initial configuration, while simultaneously ensuring the stability, supportedness and other desired properties of the partial construction at each step of the plan. We prove the soundness and completeness of our formal method with respect to these properties. We introduce a set of challenging robot construction benchmark instances, including bridge building and stack overhanging scenarios, discuss the usefulness of our framework over these instances, and demonstrate the applicability of our method using a bimanual Baxter robot.
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spellingShingle A Formal Framework for Robot Construction Problems: A Hybrid Planning Approach
Ahmad, Faseeh
Erdem, Esra
Patoglu, Volkan
Artificial Intelligence
Logic in Computer Science
Robotics
We study robot construction problems where multiple autonomous robots rearrange stacks of prefabricated blocks to build stable structures. These problems are challenging due to ramifications of actions, true concurrency, and requirements of supportedness of blocks by other blocks and stability of the structure at all times. We propose a formal hybrid planning framework to solve a wide range of robot construction problems, based on Answer Set Programming. This framework not only decides for a stable final configuration of the structure, but also computes the order of manipulation tasks for multiple autonomous robots to build the structure from an initial configuration, while simultaneously ensuring the stability, supportedness and other desired properties of the partial construction at each step of the plan. We prove the soundness and completeness of our formal method with respect to these properties. We introduce a set of challenging robot construction benchmark instances, including bridge building and stack overhanging scenarios, discuss the usefulness of our framework over these instances, and demonstrate the applicability of our method using a bimanual Baxter robot.
title A Formal Framework for Robot Construction Problems: A Hybrid Planning Approach
topic Artificial Intelligence
Logic in Computer Science
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.00745