Object Permanence Filter for Robust Tracking with Interactive Robots

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Main Authors: Peng, Shaoting, Wang, Margaret X., Shah, Julie A., Figueroa, Nadia
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Published: 2024
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author Peng, Shaoting
Wang, Margaret X.
Shah, Julie A.
Figueroa, Nadia
author_facet Peng, Shaoting
Wang, Margaret X.
Shah, Julie A.
Figueroa, Nadia
contents Object permanence, which refers to the concept that objects continue to exist even when they are no longer perceivable through the senses, is a crucial aspect of human cognitive development. In this work, we seek to incorporate this understanding into interactive robots by proposing a set of assumptions and rules to represent object permanence in multi-object, multi-agent interactive scenarios. We integrate these rules into the particle filter, resulting in the Object Permanence Filter (OPF). For multi-object scenarios, we propose an ensemble of K interconnected OPFs, where each filter predicts plausible object tracks that are resilient to missing, noisy, and kinematically or dynamically infeasible measurements, thus bringing perceptional robustness. Through several interactive scenarios, we demonstrate that the proposed OPF approach provides robust tracking in human-robot interactive tasks agnostic to measurement type, even in the presence of prolonged and complete occlusion. Webpage: https://opfilter.github.io/.
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spellingShingle Object Permanence Filter for Robust Tracking with Interactive Robots
Peng, Shaoting
Wang, Margaret X.
Shah, Julie A.
Figueroa, Nadia
Robotics
Object permanence, which refers to the concept that objects continue to exist even when they are no longer perceivable through the senses, is a crucial aspect of human cognitive development. In this work, we seek to incorporate this understanding into interactive robots by proposing a set of assumptions and rules to represent object permanence in multi-object, multi-agent interactive scenarios. We integrate these rules into the particle filter, resulting in the Object Permanence Filter (OPF). For multi-object scenarios, we propose an ensemble of K interconnected OPFs, where each filter predicts plausible object tracks that are resilient to missing, noisy, and kinematically or dynamically infeasible measurements, thus bringing perceptional robustness. Through several interactive scenarios, we demonstrate that the proposed OPF approach provides robust tracking in human-robot interactive tasks agnostic to measurement type, even in the presence of prolonged and complete occlusion. Webpage: https://opfilter.github.io/.
title Object Permanence Filter for Robust Tracking with Interactive Robots
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08231