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Main Authors: Argenziano, Francesco, Saavedra-Ruiz, Miguel, Morin, Sacha, Nardi, Daniele, Paull, Liam
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16398
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author Argenziano, Francesco
Saavedra-Ruiz, Miguel
Morin, Sacha
Nardi, Daniele
Paull, Liam
author_facet Argenziano, Francesco
Saavedra-Ruiz, Miguel
Morin, Sacha
Nardi, Daniele
Paull, Liam
contents Task and motion planning are long-standing challenges in robotics, especially when robots have to deal with dynamic environments exhibiting long-term dynamics, such as households or warehouses. In these environments, long-term dynamics mostly stem from human activities, since previously detected objects can be moved or removed from the scene. This adds the necessity to find such objects again before completing the designed task, increasing the risk of failure due to missed relocalizations. However, in these settings, the nature of such human-object interactions is often overlooked, despite being governed by common habits and repetitive patterns. Our conjecture is that these cues can be exploited to recover the most likely objects' positions in the scene, helping to address the problem of unknown relocalization in changing environments. To this end we propose FlowMaps, a model based on Flow Matching that is able to infer multimodal object locations over space and time. Our results present statistical evidence to support our hypotheses, opening the way to more complex applications of our approach. The code is publically available at https://github.com/Fra-Tsuna/flowmaps
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spellingShingle Dynamic Objects Relocalization in Changing Environments with Flow Matching
Argenziano, Francesco
Saavedra-Ruiz, Miguel
Morin, Sacha
Nardi, Daniele
Paull, Liam
Robotics
Machine Learning
Task and motion planning are long-standing challenges in robotics, especially when robots have to deal with dynamic environments exhibiting long-term dynamics, such as households or warehouses. In these environments, long-term dynamics mostly stem from human activities, since previously detected objects can be moved or removed from the scene. This adds the necessity to find such objects again before completing the designed task, increasing the risk of failure due to missed relocalizations. However, in these settings, the nature of such human-object interactions is often overlooked, despite being governed by common habits and repetitive patterns. Our conjecture is that these cues can be exploited to recover the most likely objects' positions in the scene, helping to address the problem of unknown relocalization in changing environments. To this end we propose FlowMaps, a model based on Flow Matching that is able to infer multimodal object locations over space and time. Our results present statistical evidence to support our hypotheses, opening the way to more complex applications of our approach. The code is publically available at https://github.com/Fra-Tsuna/flowmaps
title Dynamic Objects Relocalization in Changing Environments with Flow Matching
topic Robotics
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16398