SafePicking: learning safe object extraction via object-level mapping
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Author(s)
Wada, Kentaro
James, Stephen
Davison, Andrew J
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Robots need object-level scene understanding to manipulate objects while reasoning about contact, support, and occlusion among objects. Given a pile of objects, object recognition and reconstruction can identify the boundary of object instances, giving important cues as to how the objects form and support the pile. In this work, we present a system, SafePicking, that integrates object-level mapping and learning-based motion planning to generate a motion that safely extracts occluded target objects from a pile. Planning is done by learning a deep Q-network that receives observations of predicted poses and a depth-based heightmap to output a motion trajectory, trained to maximize a safety metric reward. Our results show that the observation fusion of poses and depth-sensing gives both better performance and robustness to the model. We evaluate our methods using the YCB objects in both simulation and the real world, achieving safe object extraction from piles.
Date Issued
2022-07-12
Date Acceptance
2022-07-01
Citation
2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2022
Publisher
IEEE
Journal / Book Title
2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Copyright Statement
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Sponsor
Dyson Technology Limited
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Identifier
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9812009
Grant Number
PO 4500501004
EP/S036636/1
Source
2022 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2022-05-23
Finish Date
2022-05-27