Efficient planning for near-optimal contact-rich control under uncertainty
Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2018.
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| author | Guan, Charlie Zeyu |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1204352019-04-11T08:41:27Z Efficient planning for near-optimal contact-rich control under uncertainty Guan, Charlie Zeyu Nicholas Roy. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Aeronautics and Astronautics. Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2018. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 91-95). Path planning classically focuses on avoiding environmental contact. However, some assembly tasks permit contact through compliance, and such contact may allow for more efficient and reliable solutions under action uncertainty. But optimal manipulation plans that leverage environmental contact are difficult to compute. Environmental contact produces complex kinematics that create difficulties for planning. This complexity is usually addressed by discretization over state and action space, but discretization quickly leads to computationally intractability if the optimal solution is desired. To overcome the challenge, we use the insight that only actions on configurations near the contact manifold are likely to involve complex kinematics, while segments of the plan through free space do not. Leveraging this structure can greatly reduce the number of states considered and scales much better with problem complexity. We develop the composite MDP algorithm based on this idea and show that it performs comparably to full MDP solutions at a fraction of the computational cost. However, the composite MDP still requires minutes to hours of computation, which is unsuitable for robots operating in novel environments. To overcome this limitation, we use the insight that environments are generally composed of a limited set of geometries. We can precompute the kinematic models of the dynamic object relative to these constituent geometries (constituent MDPs), and use them to assemble a kinematic model of the dynamic object relative to an environment with all constituent geometries present, by merging state spaces and transition functions. However, the straightforward assembly algorithm does not produce a sufficient computational speedup. Therefore, we introduce four assumptions to significantly reduce computation time. We demonstrate our algorithm to compute policies for novel environments on the order of seconds, without sacrificing solution quality. by Charlie Zeyu Guan. S.M. 2019-02-14T15:51:20Z 2019-02-14T15:51:20Z 2018 2018 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/120435 1084486858 eng MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 95 pages application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Aeronautics and Astronautics. Guan, Charlie Zeyu Efficient planning for near-optimal contact-rich control under uncertainty |
| title | Efficient planning for near-optimal contact-rich control under uncertainty |
| title_full | Efficient planning for near-optimal contact-rich control under uncertainty |
| title_fullStr | Efficient planning for near-optimal contact-rich control under uncertainty |
| title_full_unstemmed | Efficient planning for near-optimal contact-rich control under uncertainty |
| title_short | Efficient planning for near-optimal contact-rich control under uncertainty |
| title_sort | efficient planning for near optimal contact rich control under uncertainty |
| topic | Aeronautics and Astronautics. |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/120435 |
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