Tactile Probabilistic Contact Dynamics Estimation of Unknown Objects

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Autori principali: Kim, Jinhoo, Zhu, Yifan, Dollar, Aaron
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author Kim, Jinhoo
Zhu, Yifan
Dollar, Aaron
author_facet Kim, Jinhoo
Zhu, Yifan
Dollar, Aaron
contents We study the problem of rapidly identifying contact dynamics of unknown objects in partially known environments. The key innovation of our method is a novel formulation of the contact dynamics estimation problem as the joint estimation of contact geometries and physical parameters. We leverage DeepSDF, a compact and expressive neural-network-based geometry representation over a distribution of geometries, and adopt a particle filter to estimate both the geometries in contact and the physical parameters. In addition, we couple the estimator with an active exploration strategy that plans information-gathering moves to further expedite online estimation. Through simulation and physical experiments, we show that our method estimates accurate contact dynamics with fewer than 30 exploration moves for unknown objects touching partially known environments.
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spellingShingle Tactile Probabilistic Contact Dynamics Estimation of Unknown Objects
Kim, Jinhoo
Zhu, Yifan
Dollar, Aaron
Robotics
We study the problem of rapidly identifying contact dynamics of unknown objects in partially known environments. The key innovation of our method is a novel formulation of the contact dynamics estimation problem as the joint estimation of contact geometries and physical parameters. We leverage DeepSDF, a compact and expressive neural-network-based geometry representation over a distribution of geometries, and adopt a particle filter to estimate both the geometries in contact and the physical parameters. In addition, we couple the estimator with an active exploration strategy that plans information-gathering moves to further expedite online estimation. Through simulation and physical experiments, we show that our method estimates accurate contact dynamics with fewer than 30 exploration moves for unknown objects touching partially known environments.
title Tactile Probabilistic Contact Dynamics Estimation of Unknown Objects
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.17470