An Architecture for Online Affordance-based Perception and Whole-body Planning

The DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials held in December 2013 provided a landmark demonstration of dexterous mobile robots executing a variety of tasks aided by a remote human operator using only data from the robot's sensor suite transmitted over a constrained, field‐realistic communications link....

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Published in:Journal of field robotics 2015-03, Vol.32 (2), p.229-254
Main Authors: Fallon, Maurice, Kuindersma, Scott, Karumanchi, Sisir, Antone, Matthew, Schneider, Toby, Dai, Hongkai, D'Arpino, Claudia Pérez, Deits, Robin, DiCicco, Matt, Fourie, Dehann, Koolen, Twan, Marion, Pat, Posa, Michael, Valenzuela, Andrés, Yu, Kuan-Ting, Shah, Julie, Iagnemma, Karl, Tedrake, Russ, Teller, Seth
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Architecture
Command and control
Computer programs
Design engineering
Human
Operators
Perception
Robotics
Robots
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Summary:The DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials held in December 2013 provided a landmark demonstration of dexterous mobile robots executing a variety of tasks aided by a remote human operator using only data from the robot's sensor suite transmitted over a constrained, field‐realistic communications link. We describe the design considerations, architecture, implementation, and performance of the software that Team MIT developed to command and control an Atlas humanoid robot. Our design emphasized human interaction with an efficient motion planner, where operators expressed desired robot actions in terms of affordances fit using perception and manipulated in a custom user interface. We highlight several important lessons we learned while developing our system on a highly compressed schedule.
ISSN:1556-4959
1556-4967
DOI:10.1002/rob.21546