MATT-Diff: Multimodal Active Target Tracking by Diffusion Policy

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Auteurs principaux: Liu, Saida, Atanasov, Nikolay, Koga, Shumon
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author Liu, Saida
Atanasov, Nikolay
Koga, Shumon
author_facet Liu, Saida
Atanasov, Nikolay
Koga, Shumon
contents This paper proposes MATT-Diff: Multimodal Active Target Tracking by Diffusion Policy, a control policy for active multi-target tracking using a mobile agent. The policy enables multiple behavior modes for the agent, including exploration, tracking, and target reacquisition, without prior knowledge of the target numbers, states, or dynamics. Effective target tracking demands balancing exploration for undetected or lost targets with exploitation, i.e., uncertainty reduction, of detected but uncertain ones. We generate a demonstration dataset from three expert planners including frontier-based exploration, an uncertainty-based hybrid planner switching between frontier-based exploration and RRT* tracking, and a time-based hybrid planner switching between exploration and target reacquisition based on target detection time. Our control policy utilizes a vision transformer for egocentric map tokenization and an attention mechanism to integrate variable target estimates represented by Gaussian densities. Trained as a diffusion model, the policy learns to generate multimodal action sequences through a denoising process. Evaluations demonstrate MATT-Diff's superior tracking performance against other learning-based baselines in novel environments, as well as its multimodal behavior sourced from the multiple expert planners. Our implementation is available at https://github.com/CINAPSLab/MATT-Diff.
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spellingShingle MATT-Diff: Multimodal Active Target Tracking by Diffusion Policy
Liu, Saida
Atanasov, Nikolay
Koga, Shumon
Robotics
This paper proposes MATT-Diff: Multimodal Active Target Tracking by Diffusion Policy, a control policy for active multi-target tracking using a mobile agent. The policy enables multiple behavior modes for the agent, including exploration, tracking, and target reacquisition, without prior knowledge of the target numbers, states, or dynamics. Effective target tracking demands balancing exploration for undetected or lost targets with exploitation, i.e., uncertainty reduction, of detected but uncertain ones. We generate a demonstration dataset from three expert planners including frontier-based exploration, an uncertainty-based hybrid planner switching between frontier-based exploration and RRT* tracking, and a time-based hybrid planner switching between exploration and target reacquisition based on target detection time. Our control policy utilizes a vision transformer for egocentric map tokenization and an attention mechanism to integrate variable target estimates represented by Gaussian densities. Trained as a diffusion model, the policy learns to generate multimodal action sequences through a denoising process. Evaluations demonstrate MATT-Diff's superior tracking performance against other learning-based baselines in novel environments, as well as its multimodal behavior sourced from the multiple expert planners. Our implementation is available at https://github.com/CINAPSLab/MATT-Diff.
title MATT-Diff: Multimodal Active Target Tracking by Diffusion Policy
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.11931