Title
Active articulation model estimation through interactive perception
Abstract
We introduce a particle filter-based approach to representing and actively reducing uncertainty over articulated motion models. The presented method provides a probabilistic model that integrates visual observations with feedback from manipulation actions to best characterize a distribution of possible articulation models. We evaluate several action selection methods to efficiently reduce the uncertainty about the articulation model. The full system is experimentally evaluated using a PR2 mobile manipulator. Our experiments demonstrate that the proposed system allows for intelligent reasoning about sparse, noisy data in a number of common manipulation scenarios.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/ICRA.2015.7139655
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
Keywords
Field
DocType
manipulators,mobile robots,particle filtering (numerical methods),probability,uncertain systems,uncertainty handling,PR2 mobile manipulator,active articulation model estimation,articulated motion models,common manipulation scenarios,intelligent reasoning,interactive perception,manipulation actions,noisy data,particle filter-based approach,probabilistic model,uncertainty reduction,visual observations
Noisy data,Visualization,Particle filter,Statistical model,Artificial intelligence,Probabilistic logic,Engineering,Action selection,Perception,Machine learning,Mobile manipulator
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2015
1
1050-4729
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
12
0.58
16
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hausman, K.111911.92
S. Niekum216523.73
Sarah Osentoski332321.47
Gaurav S. Sukhatme45469548.13