Soft Tracking Using Contacts for Cluttered Objects to Perform Blind Object Retrieval
| Autor: | Sheng Zhong, Nima Fazeli, Dmitry Berenson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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FOS: Computer and information sciences
Human-Computer Interaction Computer Science - Robotics Control and Optimization Artificial Intelligence Control and Systems Engineering Mechanical Engineering Biomedical Engineering Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Robotics (cs.RO) Computer Science Applications |
| Zdroj: | IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 7:3507-3514 |
| ISSN: | 2377-3774 |
| DOI: | 10.1109/lra.2022.3146915 |
| Popis: | Retrieving an object from cluttered spaces suchas cupboards, refrigerators, or bins requires tracking objects with limited or no visual sensing. In these scenarios, contact feedback is necessary to estimate the pose of the objects, yet the objects are movable while their shapes and number may be unknown, making the association of contacts with objects extremely difficult. While previous work has focused on multi-target tracking, the assumptions therein prohibit using prior methods given only the contact-sensing modality. Instead, this paper proposes the method Soft Tracking Using Contacts for Cluttered Objects (STUCCO) that tracks the belief over contact point locations and implicit object associations using a particle filter. This method allows ambiguous object associations of past contacts to be revised as new information becomes available. We apply STUCCO to the Blind Object Retrieval problem, where a target object of known shape but unknown pose must be retrieved from clutter. Our results suggest that our method outperforms baselines in four simulation environments, and on a real robot, where contact sensing is noisy. In simulation, we achieve grasp success of at least 65% on all environments while no baselines achieve over 5%. 8 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables, and 3 algorithm blocks, accepted to RA-L, preprint |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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