Active-Perceptive Motion Generation for Mobile Manipulation

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Auteurs principaux: Jauhri, Snehal, Lueth, Sophie, Chalvatzaki, Georgia
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author Jauhri, Snehal
Lueth, Sophie
Chalvatzaki, Georgia
author_facet Jauhri, Snehal
Lueth, Sophie
Chalvatzaki, Georgia
contents Mobile Manipulation (MoMa) systems incorporate the benefits of mobility and dexterity, due to the enlarged space in which they can move and interact with their environment. However, even when equipped with onboard sensors, e.g., an embodied camera, extracting task-relevant visual information in unstructured and cluttered environments, such as households, remains challenging. In this work, we introduce an active perception pipeline for mobile manipulators to generate motions that are informative toward manipulation tasks, such as grasping in unknown, cluttered scenes. Our proposed approach, ActPerMoMa, generates robot paths in a receding horizon fashion by sampling paths and computing path-wise utilities. These utilities trade-off maximizing the visual Information Gain (IG) for scene reconstruction and the task-oriented objective, e.g., grasp success, by maximizing grasp reachability. We show the efficacy of our method in simulated experiments with a dual-arm TIAGo++ MoMa robot performing mobile grasping in cluttered scenes with obstacles. We empirically analyze the contribution of various utilities and parameters, and compare against representative baselines both with and without active perception objectives. Finally, we demonstrate the transfer of our mobile grasping strategy to the real world, indicating a promising direction for active-perceptive MoMa.
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spellingShingle Active-Perceptive Motion Generation for Mobile Manipulation
Jauhri, Snehal
Lueth, Sophie
Chalvatzaki, Georgia
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Mobile Manipulation (MoMa) systems incorporate the benefits of mobility and dexterity, due to the enlarged space in which they can move and interact with their environment. However, even when equipped with onboard sensors, e.g., an embodied camera, extracting task-relevant visual information in unstructured and cluttered environments, such as households, remains challenging. In this work, we introduce an active perception pipeline for mobile manipulators to generate motions that are informative toward manipulation tasks, such as grasping in unknown, cluttered scenes. Our proposed approach, ActPerMoMa, generates robot paths in a receding horizon fashion by sampling paths and computing path-wise utilities. These utilities trade-off maximizing the visual Information Gain (IG) for scene reconstruction and the task-oriented objective, e.g., grasp success, by maximizing grasp reachability. We show the efficacy of our method in simulated experiments with a dual-arm TIAGo++ MoMa robot performing mobile grasping in cluttered scenes with obstacles. We empirically analyze the contribution of various utilities and parameters, and compare against representative baselines both with and without active perception objectives. Finally, we demonstrate the transfer of our mobile grasping strategy to the real world, indicating a promising direction for active-perceptive MoMa.
title Active-Perceptive Motion Generation for Mobile Manipulation
topic Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.00433