Stochastic Neural Signed Swept Volume for Real-time Chance-Constrained Trajectory Optimization

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Original abstract

Collision-free motion planning requires reliable collision models from sensed environments and validation of states along a continuous trajectory. To make this tractable, most planners check for collision at discrete states along continuous trajectories against a single determinized model of the environment, introducing a trade-off between safety and computational efficiency. While continuous collision checking approaches that approximate the swept volume of the robot exist, they are computationally expensive or overly conservative. Data-driven approaches can learn the swept volume; however, these neural models are susceptible to approximation errors and are therefore often limited to serving as coarse filters for downstream collision checkers. In this work, we propose to learn a signed distance function of the swept volume as a probabilistic field, enabling quantification of epistemic uncertainty, incorporation of perception noise, and eventual integration into a chance-constrained trajectory optimization framework. We demonstrate our approach on challenging high-dimensional manipulation problems with significant sensor noise, both in simulation and on real hardware.

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