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Hauptverfasser: Mayer, Matthias, Althoff, Matthias
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Veröffentlicht: 2025
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author Mayer, Matthias
Althoff, Matthias
author_facet Mayer, Matthias
Althoff, Matthias
contents Robotic automation is a key technology that increases the efficiency and flexibility of manufacturing processes. However, one of the challenges in deploying robots in novel environments is finding the optimal base pose for the robot, which affects its reachability and deployment cost. Yet, existing research on automatically optimizing the base pose of robots has not been compared. We address this problem by optimizing the base pose of industrial robots with Bayesian optimization (BO), exhaustive search (ES), genetic algorithms (GAs), and stochastic gradient descent (SGD), and we find that all algorithms can reduce the cycle time for various evaluated tasks in synthetic and real-world environments. Stochastic gradient descent shows superior performance with regard to the success rate, solving more than 90% of our real-world tasks, while genetic algorithms show the lowest final costs. All benchmarks and implemented methods are available as baselines against which novel approaches can be compared.
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spellingShingle Smart placement, faster robots-a comparison of algorithms for robot base-pose optimization
Mayer, Matthias
Althoff, Matthias
Robotics
Robotic automation is a key technology that increases the efficiency and flexibility of manufacturing processes. However, one of the challenges in deploying robots in novel environments is finding the optimal base pose for the robot, which affects its reachability and deployment cost. Yet, existing research on automatically optimizing the base pose of robots has not been compared. We address this problem by optimizing the base pose of industrial robots with Bayesian optimization (BO), exhaustive search (ES), genetic algorithms (GAs), and stochastic gradient descent (SGD), and we find that all algorithms can reduce the cycle time for various evaluated tasks in synthetic and real-world environments. Stochastic gradient descent shows superior performance with regard to the success rate, solving more than 90% of our real-world tasks, while genetic algorithms show the lowest final costs. All benchmarks and implemented methods are available as baselines against which novel approaches can be compared.
title Smart placement, faster robots-a comparison of algorithms for robot base-pose optimization
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.19577