Robotics: Science and Systems XIII

Reasoning About Liquids via Closed-Loop Simulation

Connor Schenck, Dieter Fox

Abstract:

Simulators are powerful tools for reasoning about a robot's interactions with its environment. However, when simulations diverge from reality, that reasoning becomes less useful. In this paper, we show how to close the loop between liquid simulation and real-time perception. We use observations of liquids to correct errors when tracking the liquid's state in a simulator. Our results show that closed-loop simulation is an effective way to prevent large divergence between the simulated and real liquid states. As a direct consequence of this, our method can enable reasoning about liquids that would otherwise be infeasible due to large divergences, such as reasoning about occluded liquid.

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Bibtex:

  
@INPROCEEDINGS{Schenck-RSS-17, 
    AUTHOR    = {Connor Schenck AND Dieter Fox}, 
    TITLE     = {Reasoning About Liquids via Closed-Loop Simulation}, 
    BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems}, 
    YEAR      = {2017}, 
    ADDRESS   = {Cambridge, Massachusetts}, 
    MONTH     = {July}, 
    DOI       = {10.15607/RSS.2017.XIII.014} 
}