Safety-Critical Manipulation for Collision-Free Food Preparation
Abstract
Recent advances allow for the automation of food preparation in high-throughput environments, yet the successful deployment of these robots requires the planning and execution of quick, robust, and ultimately collision-free behaviors. In this work, we showcase a novel framework for modifying previously generated trajectories of robotic manipulators in highly detailed and dynamic collision environments using Control Barrier Functions (CBFs). This method dynamically re-plans previously validated behaviors in the presence of changing environments -- and does so in a computationally efficient manner. Moreover, the approach provides rigorous safety guarantees of the resulting trajectories, factoring in the true underlying dynamics of the manipulator. This methodology is extensively validated on a full-scale robotic manipulator in a real-world cooking environment, and has resulted in substantial improvements in computation time and robustness over re-planning.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- May 2022
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.2205.01026
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2205.01026
- Bibcode:
- 2022arXiv220501026S
- Keywords:
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- Computer Science - Robotics;
- Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Systems and Control
- E-Print:
- Submitted to RAL/IROS