Planning and Executing Navigation Among Movable Obstacles - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Planning and Executing Navigation Among Movable Obstacles

Michael Stilman, Koichi Nishiwaki, Satoshi Kagami, and James Kuffner
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 820 - 826, October, 2006

Abstract

This paper explores autonomous locomotion, reaching, grasping and manipulation for the domain of Navigation Among Movable Obstacles (NAMO). The robot perceives and constructs a model of an environment filled with various fixed and movable obstacles, and automatically plans a navigation strategy to reach a desired goal location. The planned strategy consists of a sequence of walking and compliant manipulation operations. It is executed by the robot with online feedback. We give an overview of our NAMO system, as well as provide details of the autonomous planning, online grasping and compliant hand positioning during dynamically-stable walking. Finally, we present results of a successful implementation running on the Humanoid Robot HRP-2.

BibTeX

@conference{Stilman-2006-9603,
author = {Michael Stilman and Koichi Nishiwaki and Satoshi Kagami and James Kuffner},
title = {Planning and Executing Navigation Among Movable Obstacles},
booktitle = {Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems},
year = {2006},
month = {October},
pages = {820 - 826},
keywords = {Planning, execution, navigation among movable obstacles, humanoid robotics, motion planning, walking, manipulation},
}