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Describing Physics For Physical Reasoning: Force-Based Sequential Manipulation Planning


Abstract:

Physical reasoning is a core aspect of intelligence in animals and humans. A central question is what model should be used as a basis for reasoning. Existing work conside...Show More

Abstract:

Physical reasoning is a core aspect of intelligence in animals and humans. A central question is what model should be used as a basis for reasoning. Existing work considered models ranging from intuitive physics and physical simulators to contact dynamics models used in robotic manipulation and locomotion. In this work we propose descriptions of physics which directly allow us to leverage optimization methods for physical reasoning and sequential manipulation planning. The proposed multi-physics formulation enables the solver to mix various levels of abstraction and simplifications for different objects and phases of the solution. As an essential ingredient, we propose a specific parameterization of wrench exchange between object surfaces in a path optimization framework, introducing the point-of-attack as decision variable. We demonstrate the approach on various robot manipulation planning problems, such as grasping a stick in order to push or lift another object to a target, shifting and grasping a book from a shelve, and throwing an object to bounce towards a target.
Published in: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters ( Volume: 5, Issue: 4, October 2020)
Page(s): 6209 - 6216
Date of Publication: 20 July 2020

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