Conformalized Reachable Sets for Obstacle Avoidance With Spheres

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Autores principales: Kwon, Yongseok, Michaux, Jonathan, Isaacson, Seth, Zhang, Bohao, Ejakov, Matthew, Skinner, Katherine A., Vasudevan, Ram
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author Kwon, Yongseok
Michaux, Jonathan
Isaacson, Seth
Zhang, Bohao
Ejakov, Matthew
Skinner, Katherine A.
Vasudevan, Ram
author_facet Kwon, Yongseok
Michaux, Jonathan
Isaacson, Seth
Zhang, Bohao
Ejakov, Matthew
Skinner, Katherine A.
Vasudevan, Ram
contents Safe motion planning algorithms are necessary for deploying autonomous robots in unstructured environments. Motion plans must be safe to ensure that the robot does not harm humans or damage any nearby objects. Generating these motion plans in real-time is also important to ensure that the robot can adapt to sudden changes in its environment. Many trajectory optimization methods introduce heuristics that balance safety and real-time performance, potentially increasing the risk of the robot colliding with its environment. This paper addresses this challenge by proposing Conformalized Reachable Sets for Obstacle Avoidance With Spheres (CROWS). CROWS is a novel real-time, receding-horizon trajectory planner that generates probalistically-safe motion plans. Offline, CROWS learns a novel neural network-based representation of a spherebased reachable set that overapproximates the swept volume of the robot's motion. CROWS then uses conformal prediction to compute a confidence bound that provides a probabilistic safety guarantee on the learned reachable set. At runtime, CROWS performs trajectory optimization to select a trajectory that is probabilstically-guaranteed to be collision-free. We demonstrate that CROWS outperforms a variety of state-of-the-art methods in solving challenging motion planning tasks in cluttered environments while remaining collision-free. Code, data, and video demonstrations can be found at https://roahmlab.github.io/crows/
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spellingShingle Conformalized Reachable Sets for Obstacle Avoidance With Spheres
Kwon, Yongseok
Michaux, Jonathan
Isaacson, Seth
Zhang, Bohao
Ejakov, Matthew
Skinner, Katherine A.
Vasudevan, Ram
Robotics
Safe motion planning algorithms are necessary for deploying autonomous robots in unstructured environments. Motion plans must be safe to ensure that the robot does not harm humans or damage any nearby objects. Generating these motion plans in real-time is also important to ensure that the robot can adapt to sudden changes in its environment. Many trajectory optimization methods introduce heuristics that balance safety and real-time performance, potentially increasing the risk of the robot colliding with its environment. This paper addresses this challenge by proposing Conformalized Reachable Sets for Obstacle Avoidance With Spheres (CROWS). CROWS is a novel real-time, receding-horizon trajectory planner that generates probalistically-safe motion plans. Offline, CROWS learns a novel neural network-based representation of a spherebased reachable set that overapproximates the swept volume of the robot's motion. CROWS then uses conformal prediction to compute a confidence bound that provides a probabilistic safety guarantee on the learned reachable set. At runtime, CROWS performs trajectory optimization to select a trajectory that is probabilstically-guaranteed to be collision-free. We demonstrate that CROWS outperforms a variety of state-of-the-art methods in solving challenging motion planning tasks in cluttered environments while remaining collision-free. Code, data, and video demonstrations can be found at https://roahmlab.github.io/crows/
title Conformalized Reachable Sets for Obstacle Avoidance With Spheres
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.09924