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Haoran Chen, Weiliang Deng, Biyu Ye, Yifan Xiong, Zongliang Pan, Ximin Lyu
A novel whole-body planning framework for aerial manipulators equipped with delta arms maximizes their workspace utilization using learning-based models, achieving faster and more efficient grasping. The system demonstrated a 363% increase in delta arm workspace utilization and reduced optimization costs by approximately 55%, enabling high-speed real-world tasks like grasping an object 4 meters away in 1.8 seconds.
Key insights
- Learning-based models (MLP) can effectively and accurately represent complex, non-convex robotic arm workspaces, providing intuitive and differentiable constraints for gradient-based optimization.
- Approximating complex forward kinematics with specialized neural networks like RevNet allows for stable gradient computation and enables optimization in an unconstrained variable space, simplifying the optimization problem.
- Integrating these learning-based approaches into a coupled whole-body trajectory optimization framework significantly enhances the efficiency, speed, and workspace utilization of aerial manipulators for complex tasks like grasping.
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