Robotics: Science and Systems XX
Broadcasting Support Relations Recursively from Local Dynamics for Object Retrieval in Clutters
Yitong Li, Ruihai Wu, Haoran Lu, Chuanruo Ning, Yan Shen, Guanqi Zhan, Hao DongAbstract:
In our daily life, cluttered objects are everywhere, from scattered stationery and books cluttering the table to bowls and plates filling the kitchen sink. Retrieving a target object from clutters is an essential while challenging skill for robots, for the difficulty of safely manipulating an object without disturbing others, which requires the robot to plan a manipulation sequence and first move away a few other objects supported by the target object step by step. However, due to the diversity of object configurations (e.g., categories, geometries, locations and poses) and their combinations in clutters, it is difficult for a robot to accurately infer the support relations between objects faraway with various objects in between. In this paper, we study retrieving objects in complicated clutters via a novel method of recursively broadcasting the accurate local dynamics to build a support relation graph of the whole scene, which largely reduces the complexity of the support relation inference and improves the accuracy. Experiments in both simulation and the real world demonstrate the efficiency and effectiveness of our method.
Bibtex:
@INPROCEEDINGS{Li-RSS-24, AUTHOR = {Yitong Li AND Ruihai Wu AND Haoran Lu AND Chuanruo Ning AND Yan Shen AND Guanqi Zhan AND Hao Dong}, TITLE = {{Broadcasting Support Relations Recursively from Local Dynamics for Object Retrieval in Clutters}}, BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems}, YEAR = {2024}, ADDRESS = {Delft, Netherlands}, MONTH = {July}, DOI = {10.15607/RSS.2024.XX.070} }