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Main Authors: Ioannidis, Nicholas, Reda, Daniele, Cohan, Setareh, van de Panne, Michiel
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.19564
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author Ioannidis, Nicholas
Reda, Daniele
Cohan, Setareh
van de Panne, Michiel
author_facet Ioannidis, Nicholas
Reda, Daniele
Cohan, Setareh
van de Panne, Michiel
contents Diffusion models can be used as a motion planner by sampling from a distribution of possible futures. However, the samples may not satisfy hard constraints that exist only implicitly in the training data, e.g., avoiding falls or not colliding with a wall. We propose learned viability filters that efficiently predict the future success of any given plan, i.e., diffusion sample, and thereby enforce an implicit future-success constraint. Multiple viability filters can also be composed together. We demonstrate the approach on detailed footstep planning for challenging 3D human locomotion tasks, showing the effectiveness of viability filters in performing online planning and control for box-climbing, step-over walls, and obstacle avoidance. We further show that using viability filters is significantly faster than guidance-based diffusion prediction.
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spellingShingle Diffusion-based Planning with Learned Viability Filters
Ioannidis, Nicholas
Reda, Daniele
Cohan, Setareh
van de Panne, Michiel
Robotics
Machine Learning
Diffusion models can be used as a motion planner by sampling from a distribution of possible futures. However, the samples may not satisfy hard constraints that exist only implicitly in the training data, e.g., avoiding falls or not colliding with a wall. We propose learned viability filters that efficiently predict the future success of any given plan, i.e., diffusion sample, and thereby enforce an implicit future-success constraint. Multiple viability filters can also be composed together. We demonstrate the approach on detailed footstep planning for challenging 3D human locomotion tasks, showing the effectiveness of viability filters in performing online planning and control for box-climbing, step-over walls, and obstacle avoidance. We further show that using viability filters is significantly faster than guidance-based diffusion prediction.
title Diffusion-based Planning with Learned Viability Filters
topic Robotics
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.19564