Traverse the Non-Traversable: Estimating Traversability for Wheeled Mobility on Vertically Challenging Terrain
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| author | Pan, Chenhui Datar, Aniket Pokhrel, Anuj Choulas, Matthew Nazeri, Mohammad Xiao, Xuesu |
| author_facet | Pan, Chenhui Datar, Aniket Pokhrel, Anuj Choulas, Matthew Nazeri, Mohammad Xiao, Xuesu |
| contents | Most traversability estimation techniques divide off-road terrain into traversable (e.g., pavement, gravel, and grass) and non-traversable (e.g., boulders, vegetation, and ditches) regions and then inform subsequent planners to produce trajectories on the traversable part. However, recent research demonstrated that wheeled robots can traverse vertically challenging terrain (e.g., extremely rugged boulders comparable in size to the vehicles themselves), which unfortunately would be deemed as non-traversable by existing techniques. Motivated by such limitations, this work aims at identifying the traversable from the seemingly non-traversable, vertically challenging terrain based on past kinodynamic vehicle-terrain interactions in a data-driven manner. Our new Traverse the Non-Traversable(TNT) traversability estimator can efficiently guide a down-stream sampling-based planner containing a high-precision 6-DoF kinodynamic model, which becomes deployable onboard a small-scale vehicle. Additionally, the estimated traversability can also be used as a costmap to plan global and local paths without sampling. Our experiment results show that TNT can improve planning performance, efficiency, and stability by 50%, 26.7%, and 9.2% respectively on a physical robot platform. |
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| spellingShingle | Traverse the Non-Traversable: Estimating Traversability for Wheeled Mobility on Vertically Challenging Terrain Pan, Chenhui Datar, Aniket Pokhrel, Anuj Choulas, Matthew Nazeri, Mohammad Xiao, Xuesu Robotics Most traversability estimation techniques divide off-road terrain into traversable (e.g., pavement, gravel, and grass) and non-traversable (e.g., boulders, vegetation, and ditches) regions and then inform subsequent planners to produce trajectories on the traversable part. However, recent research demonstrated that wheeled robots can traverse vertically challenging terrain (e.g., extremely rugged boulders comparable in size to the vehicles themselves), which unfortunately would be deemed as non-traversable by existing techniques. Motivated by such limitations, this work aims at identifying the traversable from the seemingly non-traversable, vertically challenging terrain based on past kinodynamic vehicle-terrain interactions in a data-driven manner. Our new Traverse the Non-Traversable(TNT) traversability estimator can efficiently guide a down-stream sampling-based planner containing a high-precision 6-DoF kinodynamic model, which becomes deployable onboard a small-scale vehicle. Additionally, the estimated traversability can also be used as a costmap to plan global and local paths without sampling. Our experiment results show that TNT can improve planning performance, efficiency, and stability by 50%, 26.7%, and 9.2% respectively on a physical robot platform. |
| title | Traverse the Non-Traversable: Estimating Traversability for Wheeled Mobility on Vertically Challenging Terrain |
| topic | Robotics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.17479 |