CHSEL: Producing Diverse Plausible Pose Estimates from Contact and Free Space Data

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.08042v1
• Date: Sun, 14 May 2023 01:43:10 GMT
• Title: CHSEL: Producing Diverse Plausible Pose Estimates from Contact and Free Space Data
• Authors: Sheng Zhong, Nima Fazeli, and Dmitry Berenson
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel method for estimating the set of plausible poses of a rigid object from a set of points with volumetric information. Our approach has three key attributes: 1) It considers volumetric information, which allows us to account for known free space; 2) It uses a novel differentiable volumetric cost function to take advantage of powerful gradient-based optimization tools; and 3) It uses methods from the Quality Diversity (QD) literature to produce a diverse set of high-quality poses.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: This paper proposes a novel method for estimating the set of plausible poses of a rigid object from a set of points with volumetric information, such as whether each point is in free space or on the surface of the object. In particular, we study how pose can be estimated from force and tactile data arising from contact. Using data derived from contact is challenging because it is inherently less information-dense than visual data, and thus the pose estimation problem is severely under-constrained when there are few contacts. Rather than attempting to estimate the true pose of the object, which is not tractable without a large number of contacts, we seek to estimate a plausible set of poses which obey the constraints imposed by the sensor data. Existing methods struggle to estimate this set because they are either designed for single pose estimates or require informative priors to be effective. Our approach to this problem, Constrained pose Hypothesis Set Elimination (CHSEL), has three key attributes: 1) It considers volumetric information, which allows us to account for known free space; 2) It uses a novel differentiable volumetric cost function to take advantage of powerful gradient-based optimization tools; and 3) It uses methods from the Quality Diversity (QD) optimization literature to produce a diverse set of high-quality poses. To our knowledge, QD methods have not been used previously for pose registration. We also show how to update our plausible pose estimates online as more data is gathered by the robot. Our experiments suggest that CHSEL shows large performance improvements over several baseline methods for both simulated and real-world data.

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