Pushing Through Clutter With Movability Awareness of Blocking Obstacles

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Hauptverfasser: Weeda, Joris J., Bakker, Saray, Chen, Gang, Alonso-Mora, Javier
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Veröffentlicht: 2025
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author Weeda, Joris J.
Bakker, Saray
Chen, Gang
Alonso-Mora, Javier
author_facet Weeda, Joris J.
Bakker, Saray
Chen, Gang
Alonso-Mora, Javier
contents Navigation Among Movable Obstacles (NAMO) poses a challenge for traditional path-planning methods when obstacles block the path, requiring push actions to reach the goal. We propose a framework that enables movability-aware planning to overcome this challenge without relying on explicit obstacle placement. Our framework integrates a global Semantic Visibility Graph and a local Model Predictive Path Integral (SVG-MPPI) approach to efficiently sample rollouts, taking into account the continuous range of obstacle movability. A physics engine is adopted to simulate the interaction result of the rollouts with the environment, and generate trajectories that minimize contact force. In qualitative and quantitative experiments, SVG-MPPI outperforms the existing paradigm that uses only binary movability for planning, achieving higher success rates with reduced cumulative contact forces. Our code is available at: https://github.com/tud-amr/SVG-MPPI
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spellingShingle Pushing Through Clutter With Movability Awareness of Blocking Obstacles
Weeda, Joris J.
Bakker, Saray
Chen, Gang
Alonso-Mora, Javier
Robotics
Navigation Among Movable Obstacles (NAMO) poses a challenge for traditional path-planning methods when obstacles block the path, requiring push actions to reach the goal. We propose a framework that enables movability-aware planning to overcome this challenge without relying on explicit obstacle placement. Our framework integrates a global Semantic Visibility Graph and a local Model Predictive Path Integral (SVG-MPPI) approach to efficiently sample rollouts, taking into account the continuous range of obstacle movability. A physics engine is adopted to simulate the interaction result of the rollouts with the environment, and generate trajectories that minimize contact force. In qualitative and quantitative experiments, SVG-MPPI outperforms the existing paradigm that uses only binary movability for planning, achieving higher success rates with reduced cumulative contact forces. Our code is available at: https://github.com/tud-amr/SVG-MPPI
title Pushing Through Clutter With Movability Awareness of Blocking Obstacles
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20106