Reactive Semantic Planning in Unexplored Semantic Environments Using Deep Perceptual Feedback

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General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception Laboratory
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Reactive and Sensor-Based Planning
Motion and Path Planning
Semantic Scene Understanding
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This work was supported by AFRL grant FA865015D1845 (subcontract 669737-1), AFOSR grant FA9550-19-1-0265 (Assured Autonomy in Contested Environments), and ONR grant #N00014-16-1-2817, a Vannevar Bush Fellowship held by the last author, sponsored by the Basic Research Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. The authors thank Diedra Krieger for assistance with video recording.
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Pavlakos, Georgios
Bowman, Sean L.
Caporale, J. Diego
Daniilidis, Kostas
Pappas, George J.
Koditschek, Daniel E.
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This paper presents a reactive planning system that enriches the topological representation of an environment with a tightly integrated semantic representation, achieved by incorporating and exploiting advances in deep perceptual learning and probabilistic semantic reasoning. Our architecture combines object detection with semantic SLAM, affording robust, reactive logical as well as geometric planning in unexplored environments. Moreover, by incorporating a human mesh estimation algorithm, our system is capable of reacting and responding in real time to semantically labeled human motions and gestures. New formal results allow tracking of suitably non-adversarial moving targets, while maintaining the same collision avoidance guarantees. We suggest the empirical utility of the proposed control architecture with a numerical study including comparisons with a state-of-the-art dynamic replanning algorithm, and physical implementation on both a wheeled and legged platform in different settings with both geometric and semantic goals. For more information: Kod*lab

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2020-06-01
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IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
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Link to article: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9113725
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@article{Vasilopoulos_RAL_2020, author = {V. Vasilopoulos and G. Pavlakos and S. L. Bowman and J. D. Caporale and K. Daniilidis and G. J. Pappas and D. E. Koditschek}, title = {{Reactive Semantic Planning in Unexplored Semantic Environments Using Deep Perceptual Feedback}}, journal = {{IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)}}, volume = {5}, number = {3}, pages = {4455-4462}, DOI = {10.1109/LRA.2020.3001496}}
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