Robotics: Science and Systems XVII

Semantic Abstraction-Guided Motion Planning for scLTL Missions in Unknown Environments

Kush Grover, Fernando S Barbosa, Jana Tumova, Jan Kretinsky

Abstract:

Complex mission specifications can be often specified through temporal logics; such as Linear Temporal Logic and its syntactically co-safe fragment; scLTL. Finding trajectories that satisfy such specifications becomes hard if the robot is to fulfil the mission in an initially unknown environment; where neither locations of regions or objects of interest in the environment nor the obstacle space are known a priori. We propose an algorithm that; while exploring the environment; learns important semantic dependencies in the form of a semantic abstraction; and uses it to bias the growth of an Rapidly-exploring random graph towards faster mission completion. Our approach leads to finding trajectories that are much shorter than those found by the sequential approach; which first explores and then plans. Simulations comparing our solution to the sequential approach; carried out in 100 randomized office-like environments; show more than 50% reduction in the trajectory length.

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Bibtex:

  
@INPROCEEDINGS{Grover-RSS-21, 
    AUTHOR    = {Kush Grover AND Fernando S Barbosa AND Jana Tumova AND Jan Kretinsky}, 
    TITLE     = {{Semantic Abstraction-Guided Motion Planning for scLTL Missions in Unknown Environments}}, 
    BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems}, 
    YEAR      = {2021}, 
    ADDRESS   = {Virtual}, 
    MONTH     = {July}, 
    DOI       = {10.15607/RSS.2021.XVII.090} 
}