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Main Authors: Dimmig, Cora A., Kobilarov, Marin
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.00889
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author Dimmig, Cora A.
Kobilarov, Marin
author_facet Dimmig, Cora A.
Kobilarov, Marin
contents With the continual adoption of Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) across a wide-variety of application spaces, robust aerial manipulation remains a key research challenge. Aerial manipulation tasks require interacting with objects in the environment, often without knowing their dynamical properties like mass and friction a priori. Additionally, interacting with these objects can have a significant impact on the control and stability of the vehicle. We investigated an approach for robust control and non-prehensile aerial manipulation in unknown environments. In particular, we use model-based Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) to learn a world model of the environment while simultaneously learning a policy for interaction with the environment. We evaluated our approach on a series of push tasks by moving an object between goal locations and demonstrated repeatable behaviors across a range of friction values.
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spellingShingle Non-Prehensile Aerial Manipulation using Model-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning
Dimmig, Cora A.
Kobilarov, Marin
Robotics
With the continual adoption of Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) across a wide-variety of application spaces, robust aerial manipulation remains a key research challenge. Aerial manipulation tasks require interacting with objects in the environment, often without knowing their dynamical properties like mass and friction a priori. Additionally, interacting with these objects can have a significant impact on the control and stability of the vehicle. We investigated an approach for robust control and non-prehensile aerial manipulation in unknown environments. In particular, we use model-based Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) to learn a world model of the environment while simultaneously learning a policy for interaction with the environment. We evaluated our approach on a series of push tasks by moving an object between goal locations and demonstrated repeatable behaviors across a range of friction values.
title Non-Prehensile Aerial Manipulation using Model-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.00889