用视觉反馈自动解开多根纠缠电缆,成功率84%。
Autonomously Unweaving Multiple Cables Using Visual Feedback
- 将解缆建模为图结构上的抓取放置问题,基于视觉状态选择抓点。
- 提出新型状态转移模型,预测拉直与弯曲对电缆路径的影响。
- 适用于电气线缆、鞋带等柔性物体的自动化分离,适合机器人操作场景。
许多电缆管理任务涉及分离不同电缆并解除缠结。自动化这一任务极具挑战性,因为电缆具有柔性和复杂的打结及多段互缠结构。以往研究主要聚焦于单根电缆解结,而本文关注另一子任务——多电缆解缠,即移除多根互缠电缆间的交叉部分以实现分离并便于后续操作。我们提出一种利用视觉反馈解缠松散缠绕电缆的方法。将解缆过程建模为拾取-放置问题,抓取位置从基于图的电缆状态表示中的离散节点中选取。该状态表示从视觉图像中编码电缆的拓扑与几何信息。为预测未来状态并识别有效动作,我们设计了一种新颖的状态转移模型,考虑了操作过程中电缆的拉直与弯曲行为。基于该模型,选择两种高层动作原语,并计算预测的即时代价以优化底层动作。实验表明,迭代感知-规划-执行流程可在平均84%的成功率下完成电线与鞋带的解缠。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Many cable management tasks involve separating out the different cables and removing tangles. Automating this task is challenging because cables are deformable and can have combinations of knots and multiple interwoven segments. Prior works have focused on untying knots in one cable, which is one subtask of cable management. However, in this paper, we focus on a different subtask called multi-cable unweaving, which refers to removing the intersections among multiple interwoven cables to separate them and facilitate further manipulation. We propose a method that utilizes visual feedback to unweave a bundle of loosely entangled cables. We formulate cable unweaving as a pick-and-place problem, where the grasp position is selected from discrete nodes in a graph-based cable state representation. Our cable state representation encodes both topological and geometric information about the cables from the visual image. To predict future cable states and identify valid actions, we present a novel state transition model that takes into account the straightening and bending of cables during manipulation. Using this state transition model, we select between two high-level action primitives and calculate predicted immediate costs to optimize the lower-level actions. We experimentally demonstrate that iterating the above perception-planning-action process enables unweaving electric cables and shoelaces with an 84% success rate on average.
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