Adaptive Distance Functions via Kelvin Transformation
| Autor: | Muchacho, Rafael I. Cabral, Pokorny, Florian T. |
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| Rok vydání: | 2024 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| Popis: | The term safety in robotics is often understood as a synonym for avoidance. Although this perspective has led to progress in path planning and reactive control, a generalization of this perspective is necessary to include task semantics relevant to contact-rich manipulation tasks, especially during teleoperation and to ensure the safety of learned policies. We introduce the semantics-aware distance function and a corresponding computational method based on the Kelvin Transformation. The semantics-aware distance generalizes signed distance functions by allowing the zero level set to lie inside of the object in regions where contact is allowed, effectively incorporating task semantics -- such as object affordances and user intent -- in an adaptive implicit representation of safe sets. In validation experiments we show the capability of our method to adapt to time-varying semantic information, and to perform queries in sub-microsecond, enabling applications in reinforcement learning, trajectory optimization, and motion planning. Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures, submitted to IEEE/RSJ IROS 2024 |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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