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Hierarchical Object-Oriented POMDP Planning for Object Rearrangement

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Author

Rajesh Mangannavar, Alan Fern, Prasad Tadepalli

Outline

This paper presents an online planning framework and a novel benchmark dataset for solving the multi-object relocation problem in partially observable multi-spatial environments. Existing object relocation solutions based on reinforcement learning or manually coded planning methods often lack adaptability to diverse problems. To address these limitations, this paper proposes a Hierarchical Object-Oriented Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (HOO-POMDP) planning approach. This approach consists of (a) an object-oriented POMDP planner that generates subgoals, (b) a set of low-level policies for achieving the subgoals, and (c) an abstraction system that transforms the continuous low-level world into a representation suitable for abstract planning. To enable a rigorous evaluation of the relocation problem, we present MultiRoomR, a comprehensive benchmark featuring diverse multi-spatial environments (partial observability of 10-30%, blocked paths, occluded targets, and 10-20 objects distributed across 2-4 rooms). Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed system effectively handles these complex scenarios despite imperfect perception and achieves promising results on both existing benchmarks and the novel MultiRoomR dataset.

Takeaways, Limitations

Takeaways:
We present a novel online planning framework and benchmark dataset (MultiRoomR) for multi-object relocation problems in partially observable multi-room environments.
Improved adaptability to diverse problems through a hierarchical object-oriented POMDP (HOO-POMDP) planning approach.
Implementing an effective system that exhibits robust performance even with imperfect recognition.
Promising results achieved on both existing benchmarks and the new MultiRoomR dataset.
Limitations:
Further research is needed on the generalization performance of the proposed method.
Further review of the diversity and scope of the MultiRoomR dataset is needed.
Application and performance evaluation for actual robot systems are required.
Analysis of computational complexity and scalability is required.
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