MARS: Multimodal Active Robotic Sensing for Articulated Characterization

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Main Authors: Zeng, Hongliang, Zhang, Ping, Wu, Chengjiong, Wang, Jiahua, Ye, Tingyu, Li, Fang
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Published: 2024
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author Zeng, Hongliang
Zhang, Ping
Wu, Chengjiong
Wang, Jiahua
Ye, Tingyu
Li, Fang
author_facet Zeng, Hongliang
Zhang, Ping
Wu, Chengjiong
Wang, Jiahua
Ye, Tingyu
Li, Fang
contents Precise perception of articulated objects is vital for empowering service robots. Recent studies mainly focus on point cloud, a single-modal approach, often neglecting vital texture and lighting details and assuming ideal conditions like optimal viewpoints, unrepresentative of real-world scenarios. To address these limitations, we introduce MARS, a novel framework for articulated object characterization. It features a multi-modal fusion module utilizing multi-scale RGB features to enhance point cloud features, coupled with reinforcement learning-based active sensing for autonomous optimization of observation viewpoints. In experiments conducted with various articulated object instances from the PartNet-Mobility dataset, our method outperformed current state-of-the-art methods in joint parameter estimation accuracy. Additionally, through active sensing, MARS further reduces errors, demonstrating enhanced efficiency in handling suboptimal viewpoints. Furthermore, our method effectively generalizes to real-world articulated objects, enhancing robot interactions. Code is available at https://github.com/robhlzeng/MARS.
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spellingShingle MARS: Multimodal Active Robotic Sensing for Articulated Characterization
Zeng, Hongliang
Zhang, Ping
Wu, Chengjiong
Wang, Jiahua
Ye, Tingyu
Li, Fang
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Precise perception of articulated objects is vital for empowering service robots. Recent studies mainly focus on point cloud, a single-modal approach, often neglecting vital texture and lighting details and assuming ideal conditions like optimal viewpoints, unrepresentative of real-world scenarios. To address these limitations, we introduce MARS, a novel framework for articulated object characterization. It features a multi-modal fusion module utilizing multi-scale RGB features to enhance point cloud features, coupled with reinforcement learning-based active sensing for autonomous optimization of observation viewpoints. In experiments conducted with various articulated object instances from the PartNet-Mobility dataset, our method outperformed current state-of-the-art methods in joint parameter estimation accuracy. Additionally, through active sensing, MARS further reduces errors, demonstrating enhanced efficiency in handling suboptimal viewpoints. Furthermore, our method effectively generalizes to real-world articulated objects, enhancing robot interactions. Code is available at https://github.com/robhlzeng/MARS.
title MARS: Multimodal Active Robotic Sensing for Articulated Characterization
topic Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.01191