Stein Variational Ergodic Surface Coverage with SE(3) Constraints

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.09458v2
• Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2026 11:54:43 GMT
• Title: Stein Variational Ergodic Surface Coverage with SE(3) Constraints
• Abstract summary: Existing trajectory methods fail to generate tractable 3D point-cloud surface targets.<n>We introduce a new approach to generate 3D point-cloud surface trajectories.<n>Our framework consistently identifies local optima compared to strong optimization-based SAO approaches.
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• Abstract: Surface manipulation tasks require robots to generate trajectories that comprehensively cover complex 3D surfaces while maintaining precise end-effector poses. Existing ergodic trajectory optimization (TO) methods demonstrate success in coverage tasks, while struggling with point-cloud targets due to the nonconvex optimization landscapes and the inadequate handling of SE(3) constraints in sampling-as-optimization (SAO) techniques. In this work, we introduce a preconditioned SE(3) Stein Variational Gradient Descent (SVGD) approach for SAO ergodic trajectory generation. Our proposed approach comprises multiple innovations. First, we reformulate point-cloud ergodic coverage as a manifold-aware sampling problem. Second, we derive SE(3)-specific SVGD particle updates, and, third, we develop a preconditioner to accelerate TO convergence. Our sampling-based framework consistently identifies superior local optima compared to strong optimization-based and SAO baselines while preserving the SE(3) geometric structure. Experiments on a 3D point-cloud surface coverage benchmark and robotic surface drawing tasks demonstrate that our method achieves superior coverage quality with tractable computation in our setting relative to existing TO and SAO approaches, and is validated in real-world robot experiments.

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