Manifold Representations for State Estimation in Contact Manipulation
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چکیده
We investigate the problem of using contact sensors to estimate the configuration of an object during manipulation. Contact sensing is very discriminative by nature and, therefore, the set of object configurations that activate a sensor constitutes a lower-dimensional manifold in the configuration space of the object. This causes conventional state estimation methods, such as particle filters, to perform poorly during periods of contact. The manifold particle filter addresses this problem by sampling particles directly from the contact manifold. When it exists, we can sample these particles from an analytic representation of the contact manifold. We present two alternative sample-based contact manifold representations that make no assumptions about the object-hand geometry: rejection sampling and trajectory rollouts. We discuss theoretical considerations behind these three representations and compare their performance in a suite of simulation experiments. We show that all three representations enable the manifold particle filter to outperform the conventional particle filter. Additionally, we show that the trajectory rollout representation performs similarly to the analytic method despite the rollout method’s relative simplicity.
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