Motion Planning Diffusion: Learning and Planning of Robot Motions with Diffusion Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01557v2
• Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 06:50:43 GMT
• Title: Motion Planning Diffusion: Learning and Planning of Robot Motions with Diffusion Models
• Authors: Joao Carvalho, An T. Le, Mark Baierl, Dorothea Koert, Jan Peters,
• Abstract summary: Learning trajectory generative models as priors for a new planning problem is highly desirable. We propose learning diffusion models as priors to bootstrapping the motion planning problem. Our experiments show that diffusion models are strong priors to encode high-dimensional trajectory distributions of robot motions.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Learning priors on trajectory distributions can help accelerate robot motion planning optimization. Given previously successful plans, learning trajectory generative models as priors for a new planning problem is highly desirable. Prior works propose several ways on utilizing this prior to bootstrapping the motion planning problem. Either sampling the prior for initializations or using the prior distribution in a maximum-a-posterior formulation for trajectory optimization. In this work, we propose learning diffusion models as priors. We then can sample directly from the posterior trajectory distribution conditioned on task goals, by leveraging the inverse denoising process of diffusion models. Furthermore, diffusion has been recently shown to effectively encode data multimodality in high-dimensional settings, which is particularly well-suited for large trajectory dataset. To demonstrate our method efficacy, we compare our proposed method - Motion Planning Diffusion - against several baselines in simulated planar robot and 7-dof robot arm manipulator environments. To assess the generalization capabilities of our method, we test it in environments with previously unseen obstacles. Our experiments show that diffusion models are strong priors to encode high-dimensional trajectory distributions of robot motions.

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