PIAug -- Physics Informed Augmentation for Learning Vehicle Dynamics for Off-Road Navigation
| Autor: | Maheshwari, Parv, Wang, Wenshan, Triest, Samuel, Sivaprakasam, Matthew, Aich, Shubhra, Rogers III, John G., Gregory, Jason M., Scherer, Sebastian |
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| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| Popis: | Modeling the precise dynamics of off-road vehicles is a complex yet essential task due to the challenging terrain they encounter and the need for optimal performance and safety. Recently, there has been a focus on integrating nominal physics-based models alongside data-driven neural networks using Physics Informed Neural Networks. These approaches often assume the availability of a well-distributed dataset; however, this assumption may not hold due to regions in the physical distribution that are hard to collect, such as high-speed motions and rare terrains. Therefore, we introduce a physics-informed data augmentation methodology called PIAug. We show an example use case of the same by modeling high-speed and aggressive motion predictions, given a dataset with only low-speed data. During the training phase, we leverage the nominal model for generating target domain (medium and high velocity) data using the available source data (low velocity). Subsequently, we employ a physics-inspired loss function with this augmented dataset to incorporate prior knowledge of physics into the neural network. Our methodology results in up to 67% less mean error in trajectory prediction in comparison to a standalone nominal model, especially during aggressive maneuvers at speeds outside the training domain. In real-life navigation experiments, our model succeeds in 4x tighter waypoint tracking constraints than the Kinematic Bicycle Model (KBM) at out-of-domain velocities. Comment: Under Review at ICRA 2024 |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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