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Main Authors: Aggarwal, Naman, How, Jonathan P.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.09059
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author Aggarwal, Naman
How, Jonathan P.
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How, Jonathan P.
contents The paper presents Maximal Ellipsoid Backward Reachable Trees MAXELLIPSOID BRT, which is a multi-query algorithm for planning of dynamic systems under stochastic motion uncertainty and constraints on the control input. In contrast to existing probabilistic planning methods that grow a roadmap of distributions, our proposed method introduces a framework to construct a roadmap of ambiguity sets of distributions such that each edge in our proposed roadmap provides a feasible control sequence for a family of distributions at once leading to efficient multi-query planning. Specifically, we construct a backward reachable tree of maximal size ambiguity sets and the corresponding distributionally robust edge controllers. Experiments show that the computation of these sets of distributions, in a backwards fashion from the goal, leads to efficient planning at a fraction of the size of the roadmap required for state-of-the-art methods. The computation of these maximal ambiguity sets and edges is carried out via a convex semidefinite relaxation to a novel nonlinear program. We also formally prove a theorem on maximum coverage for a technique proposed in our prior work.
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spellingShingle SDP Synthesis of Distributionally Robust Backward Reachable Trees for Probabilistic Planning
Aggarwal, Naman
How, Jonathan P.
Systems and Control
Robotics
The paper presents Maximal Ellipsoid Backward Reachable Trees MAXELLIPSOID BRT, which is a multi-query algorithm for planning of dynamic systems under stochastic motion uncertainty and constraints on the control input. In contrast to existing probabilistic planning methods that grow a roadmap of distributions, our proposed method introduces a framework to construct a roadmap of ambiguity sets of distributions such that each edge in our proposed roadmap provides a feasible control sequence for a family of distributions at once leading to efficient multi-query planning. Specifically, we construct a backward reachable tree of maximal size ambiguity sets and the corresponding distributionally robust edge controllers. Experiments show that the computation of these sets of distributions, in a backwards fashion from the goal, leads to efficient planning at a fraction of the size of the roadmap required for state-of-the-art methods. The computation of these maximal ambiguity sets and edges is carried out via a convex semidefinite relaxation to a novel nonlinear program. We also formally prove a theorem on maximum coverage for a technique proposed in our prior work.
title SDP Synthesis of Distributionally Robust Backward Reachable Trees for Probabilistic Planning
topic Systems and Control
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.09059