Computer Science > Robotics
[Submitted on 12 Aug 2021 (v1), last revised 25 Oct 2021 (this version, v2)]
Title:Distributional Depth-Based Estimation of Object Articulation Models
View PDFAbstract:We propose a method that efficiently learns distributions over articulation model parameters directly from depth images without the need to know articulation model categories a priori. By contrast, existing methods that learn articulation models from raw observations typically only predict point estimates of the model parameters, which are insufficient to guarantee the safe manipulation of articulated objects. Our core contributions include a novel representation for distributions over rigid body transformations and articulation model parameters based on screw theory, von Mises-Fisher distributions, and Stiefel manifolds. Combining these concepts allows for an efficient, mathematically sound representation that implicitly satisfies the constraints that rigid body transformations and articulations must adhere to. Leveraging this representation, we introduce a novel deep learning based approach, DUST-net, that performs category-independent articulation model estimation while also providing model uncertainties. We evaluate our approach on several benchmarking datasets and real-world objects and compare its performance with two current state-of-the-art methods. Our results demonstrate that DUST-net can successfully learn distributions over articulation models for novel objects across articulation model categories, which generate point estimates with better accuracy than state-of-the-art methods and effectively capture the uncertainty over predicted model parameters due to noisy inputs. Project webpage: this https URL
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From: Ajinkya Jain [view email][v1] Thu, 12 Aug 2021 17:44:51 UTC (4,354 KB)
[v2] Mon, 25 Oct 2021 05:06:39 UTC (5,100 KB)
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