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Pushing Everything Everywhere All at Once: Probabilistic Prehensile Pushing
KTH. Flanders Make, Leuven, Belgium, 3001.ORCID iD: 0009-0004-5514-1318
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Intelligent systems, Robotics, Perception and Learning, RPL.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2296-6685
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Intelligent systems, Robotics, Perception and Learning, RPL.ORCID iD: 0009-0008-1560-6626
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Intelligent systems, Robotics, Perception and Learning, RPL.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2965-2953
2025 (English)In: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, E-ISSN 2377-3766, Vol. 10, no 5, p. 4540-4547Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

We address prehensile pushing, the problem of manipulating a grasped object by pushing against the environment. Our solution is an efficient nonlinear trajectory optimization problem relaxed from an exact mixed integer non-linear trajectory optimization formulation. The critical insight is recasting the external pushers (environment) as a discrete probability distribution instead of binary variables and minimizing the entropy of the distribution. The probabilistic reformulation allows all pushers to be used simultaneously, but at the optimum, the probability mass concentrates onto one due to the entropy minimization. We numerically compare our method against a state-of-the-art sampling-based baseline on a prehensile pushing task. The results demonstrate that our method finds trajectories 8 times faster and at a 20 times lower cost than the baseline. Finally, we demonstrate that a simulated and real Frank Panda robot can successfully manipulate different objects following the trajectories proposed by our method.

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2025. Vol. 10, no 5, p. 4540-4547
Keywords [en]
Dexterous manipulation, manipulation planning, optimization and optimal control
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Robotics and automation Computer graphics and computer vision
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-362513DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2025.3552267ISI: 001455440600008Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105001989745OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-362513DiVA, id: diva2:1952961
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