vMF-Contact: Uncertainty-aware Evidential Learning for Probabilistic Contact-grasp in Noisy Clutter

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Hauptverfasser: Shi, Yitian, Welte, Edgar, Gilles, Maximilian, Rayyes, Rania
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author Shi, Yitian
Welte, Edgar
Gilles, Maximilian
Rayyes, Rania
author_facet Shi, Yitian
Welte, Edgar
Gilles, Maximilian
Rayyes, Rania
contents Grasp learning in noisy environments, such as occlusions, sensor noise, and out-of-distribution (OOD) objects, poses significant challenges. Recent learning-based approaches focus primarily on capturing aleatoric uncertainty from inherent data noise. The epistemic uncertainty, which represents the OOD recognition, is often addressed by ensembles with multiple forward paths, limiting real-time application. In this paper, we propose an uncertainty-aware approach for 6-DoF grasp detection using evidential learning to comprehensively capture both uncertainties in real-world robotic grasping. As a key contribution, we introduce vMF-Contact, a novel architecture for learning hierarchical contact grasp representations with probabilistic modeling of directional uncertainty as von Mises-Fisher (vMF) distribution. To achieve this, we analyze the theoretical formulation of the second-order objective on the posterior parametrization, providing formal guarantees for the model's ability to quantify uncertainty and improve grasp prediction performance. Moreover, we enhance feature expressiveness by applying partial point reconstructions as an auxiliary task, improving the comprehension of uncertainty quantification as well as the generalization to unseen objects. In the real-world experiments, our method demonstrates a significant improvement by 39% in the overall clearance rate compared to the baselines. The code is available under: https://github.com/YitianShi/vMF-Contact/
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spellingShingle vMF-Contact: Uncertainty-aware Evidential Learning for Probabilistic Contact-grasp in Noisy Clutter
Shi, Yitian
Welte, Edgar
Gilles, Maximilian
Rayyes, Rania
Robotics
Grasp learning in noisy environments, such as occlusions, sensor noise, and out-of-distribution (OOD) objects, poses significant challenges. Recent learning-based approaches focus primarily on capturing aleatoric uncertainty from inherent data noise. The epistemic uncertainty, which represents the OOD recognition, is often addressed by ensembles with multiple forward paths, limiting real-time application. In this paper, we propose an uncertainty-aware approach for 6-DoF grasp detection using evidential learning to comprehensively capture both uncertainties in real-world robotic grasping. As a key contribution, we introduce vMF-Contact, a novel architecture for learning hierarchical contact grasp representations with probabilistic modeling of directional uncertainty as von Mises-Fisher (vMF) distribution. To achieve this, we analyze the theoretical formulation of the second-order objective on the posterior parametrization, providing formal guarantees for the model's ability to quantify uncertainty and improve grasp prediction performance. Moreover, we enhance feature expressiveness by applying partial point reconstructions as an auxiliary task, improving the comprehension of uncertainty quantification as well as the generalization to unseen objects. In the real-world experiments, our method demonstrates a significant improvement by 39% in the overall clearance rate compared to the baselines. The code is available under: https://github.com/YitianShi/vMF-Contact/
title vMF-Contact: Uncertainty-aware Evidential Learning for Probabilistic Contact-grasp in Noisy Clutter
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.03591