BSSM: GPU-Accelerated Point-Cloud Distance Metric for Motion Planning

We propose the BSSM: Point-Cloud based (B)iased (S)igned (S)mooth (M)etric, which is used to compute a distance metric between a manipulator and its environment. Unlike many methods that requires that the environment is modeled using simple geometric primitives such as spheres, boxes, and cylinders,...

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Published in:IEEE robotics and automation letters 2024-11, Vol.9 (11), p.10319-10326
Main Authors: Goncalves, Vinicius Mariano, Krishnamurthy, Prashanth, Tzes, Anthony, Khorrami, Farshad
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Collision avoidance
Distance computation
Euclidean distance
GPU acceleration
Graphics processing units
Kinematics
manipulation planning
Measurement
Motion planning
Point cloud compression
Robot kinematics
Robot motion
task and motion planning
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Summary:We propose the BSSM: Point-Cloud based (B)iased (S)igned (S)mooth (M)etric, which is used to compute a distance metric between a manipulator and its environment. Unlike many methods that requires that the environment is modeled using simple geometric primitives such as spheres, boxes, and cylinders, our proposed metric directly utilizes point clouds. The proposed metric has properties of being smooth (infinitely differentiable), signed (yielding non-zero values upon overlap), and biased. The latter is a novel feature that, as demonstrated by our simulation results, offers advantages for motion planning. This metric is suitable for GPU parallelization and simulation studies and a real experiment are offered to investigate its benefits.
ISSN:2377-3766
2377-3766
DOI:10.1109/LRA.2024.3469809