Towards Local Minima-free Robotic Navigation: Model Predictive Path Integral Control via Repulsive Potential Augmentation

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Hauptverfasser: Fuke, Takahiro, Endo, Masafumi, Honda, Kohei, Ishigami, Genya
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author Fuke, Takahiro
Endo, Masafumi
Honda, Kohei
Ishigami, Genya
author_facet Fuke, Takahiro
Endo, Masafumi
Honda, Kohei
Ishigami, Genya
contents Model-based control is a crucial component of robotic navigation. However, it often struggles with entrapment in local minima due to its inherent nature as a finite, myopic optimization procedure. Previous studies have addressed this issue but sacrificed either solution quality due to their reactive nature or computational efficiency in generating explicit paths for proactive guidance. To this end, we propose a motion planning method that proactively avoids local minima without any guidance from global paths. The key idea is repulsive potential augmentation, integrating high-level directional information into the Model Predictive Path Integral control as a single repulsive term through an artificial potential field. We evaluate our method through theoretical analysis and simulations in environments with obstacles that induce local minima. Results show that our method guarantees the avoidance of local minima and outperforms existing methods in terms of global optimality without decreasing computational efficiency.
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spellingShingle Towards Local Minima-free Robotic Navigation: Model Predictive Path Integral Control via Repulsive Potential Augmentation
Fuke, Takahiro
Endo, Masafumi
Honda, Kohei
Ishigami, Genya
Robotics
Model-based control is a crucial component of robotic navigation. However, it often struggles with entrapment in local minima due to its inherent nature as a finite, myopic optimization procedure. Previous studies have addressed this issue but sacrificed either solution quality due to their reactive nature or computational efficiency in generating explicit paths for proactive guidance. To this end, we propose a motion planning method that proactively avoids local minima without any guidance from global paths. The key idea is repulsive potential augmentation, integrating high-level directional information into the Model Predictive Path Integral control as a single repulsive term through an artificial potential field. We evaluate our method through theoretical analysis and simulations in environments with obstacles that induce local minima. Results show that our method guarantees the avoidance of local minima and outperforms existing methods in terms of global optimality without decreasing computational efficiency.
title Towards Local Minima-free Robotic Navigation: Model Predictive Path Integral Control via Repulsive Potential Augmentation
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.11379