Title
Autonomous robotic stone stacking with online next best object target pose planning.
Abstract
Predominately, robotic construction is applied as prefabrication in structured indoor environments with standard building materials. Our work, on the other hand, focuses on utilizing irregular materials found on-site, such as rubble and rocks, for autonomous construction. We present a pipeline that detects randomly placed objects in a scene that are used by our next best stacking pose searching method employing gradient descent with a random initial orientation, exploiting a physics engine. This approach is validated in an experimental setup using a robotic manipulator by constructing balancing vertical stacks without mortars and adhesives. We show the results of eleven consecutive trials to form such towers autonomously using four arbitrarily in front of the robot placed rocks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.3929/ethz-a-010870003
ICRA
Field
DocType
Volume
Computer vision,Gradient descent,Rubble,Physics engine,Artificial intelligence,Prefabrication,Engineering,Robot,Robot manipulator,Stacking
Conference
2017
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
1
2
0.36
References 
Authors
4
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fadri Furrer1133.68
Martin Wermelinger263.13
Hironori Yoshida321.38
Gramazio, F.4102.23
Kohler, M.591.52
Roland Siegwart67640551.49
Marco Hutter746058.00