DTG : Diffusion-based Trajectory Generation for Mapless Global Navigation

Fuente: arXiv
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Liang, Jing, Payandeh, Amirreza, Song, Daeun, Xiao, Xuesu, Manocha, Dinesh
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
Subjects:
Online Access:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866909355568267264
author Liang, Jing
Payandeh, Amirreza
Song, Daeun
Xiao, Xuesu
Manocha, Dinesh
author_facet Liang, Jing
Payandeh, Amirreza
Song, Daeun
Xiao, Xuesu
Manocha, Dinesh
contents We present a novel end-to-end diffusion-based trajectory generation method, DTG, for mapless global navigation in challenging outdoor scenarios with occlusions and unstructured off-road features like grass, buildings, bushes, etc. Given a distant goal, our approach computes a trajectory that satisfies the following goals: (1) minimize the travel distance to the goal; (2) maximize the traversability by choosing paths that do not lie in undesirable areas. Specifically, we present a novel Conditional RNN(CRNN) for diffusion models to efficiently generate trajectories. Furthermore, we propose an adaptive training method that ensures that the diffusion model generates more traversable trajectories. We evaluate our methods in various outdoor scenes and compare the performance with other global navigation algorithms on a Husky robot. In practice, we observe at least a 15% improvement in traveling distance and around a 7% improvement in traversability.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2403_09900
institution arXiv
publishDate 2024
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle DTG : Diffusion-based Trajectory Generation for Mapless Global Navigation
Liang, Jing
Payandeh, Amirreza
Song, Daeun
Xiao, Xuesu
Manocha, Dinesh
Robotics
We present a novel end-to-end diffusion-based trajectory generation method, DTG, for mapless global navigation in challenging outdoor scenarios with occlusions and unstructured off-road features like grass, buildings, bushes, etc. Given a distant goal, our approach computes a trajectory that satisfies the following goals: (1) minimize the travel distance to the goal; (2) maximize the traversability by choosing paths that do not lie in undesirable areas. Specifically, we present a novel Conditional RNN(CRNN) for diffusion models to efficiently generate trajectories. Furthermore, we propose an adaptive training method that ensures that the diffusion model generates more traversable trajectories. We evaluate our methods in various outdoor scenes and compare the performance with other global navigation algorithms on a Husky robot. In practice, we observe at least a 15% improvement in traveling distance and around a 7% improvement in traversability.
title DTG : Diffusion-based Trajectory Generation for Mapless Global Navigation
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09900