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Knowledge-Oriented Physics-Based Motion Planning for Grasping Under Uncertainty

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Grasping an object in unstructured and uncertain environments is a challenging task, particularly when a collision-free trajectory does not exits. High-level knowledge and reasoning processes, as well as the allowing of interaction between objects, can enhance the planning efficiency in such environments. In this direction, this study proposes a knowledge-oriented physics-based motion planning approach for a hand-arm system that uses a high-level knowledge-based reasoning to partition the workspace into regions to both guide the planner and reason about the result of the dynamical interactions between rigid bodies. The proposed planner is a kinodynamic RRT that uses a region-biased state sampling strategy and a smart validity checker that takes into account uncertainty in the pose of the objects. Complex dynamical interactions along with possible physics-based constraints such as friction and gravity are handled by a physics engine that is used as the RRT state propagator. The proposal is validated for different scenarios in simulation and in a real environment using a 7-degree-of-freedom KUKA Lightweight robot equipped with a two-finger gripper. The results show a significant improvement in the success rate of the execution of the computed plan in the presence of object pose uncertainty.

J. Rosell—This work was partially supported by the Spanish Government through the projects DPI2013-40882-P and DPI2016-80077-R.

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    Video: https://sir.upc.edu/projects/kautham/videos/RAL-3.mp4.

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Muhayyuddin, Akbari, A., Rosell, J. (2018). Knowledge-Oriented Physics-Based Motion Planning for Grasping Under Uncertainty. In: Ollero, A., Sanfeliu, A., Montano, L., Lau, N., Cardeira, C. (eds) ROBOT 2017: Third Iberian Robotics Conference. ROBOT 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 693. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70833-1_41

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