Robot motion planning as video prediction: A spatio-temporal neural network-based motion planner
2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and …, 2022•ieeexplore.ieee.org
Neural network (NN)-based methods have emerged as an attractive approach for robot
motion planning due to strong learning capabilities of NN models and their inherently high
parallelism. Despite the current development in this direction, the efficient capture and
processing of important sequential and spatial information, in a direct and simultaneous
way, is still relatively under-explored. To overcome the challenge and unlock the potentials
of neural networks for motion planning tasks, in this paper, we propose STP-Net, an end-to …
motion planning due to strong learning capabilities of NN models and their inherently high
parallelism. Despite the current development in this direction, the efficient capture and
processing of important sequential and spatial information, in a direct and simultaneous
way, is still relatively under-explored. To overcome the challenge and unlock the potentials
of neural networks for motion planning tasks, in this paper, we propose STP-Net, an end-to …
Neural network (NN)-based methods have emerged as an attractive approach for robot motion planning due to strong learning capabilities of NN models and their inherently high parallelism. Despite the current development in this direction, the efficient capture and processing of important sequential and spatial information, in a direct and simultaneous way, is still relatively under-explored. To overcome the challenge and unlock the potentials of neural networks for motion planning tasks, in this paper, we propose STP-Net, an end-to-end learning framework that can fully extract and leverage important spatio-temporal information to form an efficient neural motion planner. By interpreting the movement of the robot as a video clip, robot motion planning is transformed to a video prediction task that can be performed by STP-Net in both spatially and temporally efficient ways. Empirical evaluations across different seen and unseen environments show that, with nearly 100% accuracy (aka, success rate), STP-Net demonstrates very promising performance with respect to both planning speed and path cost. Compared with existing NN-based motion planners, STP-Net achieves at least 5×, 2.6× and 1.8× faster speed with lower path cost on 2D Random Forest, 2D Maze and 3D Random Forest environments, respectively. Furthermore, STP-Net can quickly and simultaneously compute multiple near-optimal paths in multi-robot motion planning tasks.
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