擬似剛体モデルは実植物をどこまで再現できるか?ブルーベリー茎の圃場検証
How Well Do Pseudo-Rigid Body Models Capture Real Plants? In-Field Validation of Simulated Blueberry Canes
ブルーベリーの茎を擬似剛体モデルでシミュレーションし、実際の圃場で計測した変形データと比較してモデルの精度と感度を検証した。
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著者: Hannah Kolano, Chelse VanAtter, Wei Yang, Cindy Grimm, Joseph R. Davidson
分類: cs.RO
原文アブストラクト
Many labor-intensive tasks in fruit production such as pruning require physically interacting with the plant (e.g., pushing, pulling, bending limbs, etc.). Due to increasing labor shortages, there is widespread interest in the adoption of robotics in this area. When the robot must physically interact with the system, a deformable model of the plant is beneficial. Coupled, spring-loaded beams have been used in prior work to build deformable plant models in simulation for learning, planning, and control, but this approach has rarely been validated against the mechanical properties of real-world plants. In this paper, we use this rigid-body model, grounded in real material properties and beam bending theory, to simulate the deformation of blueberry canes under loading. To validate the model, we simulate the canes in MuJoCo and compare their behavior with real-world data collected from probing canes at a commercial farm with a custom testbed. We perform sensitivity analysis on several key modeling variables and show that this approach is highly sensitive to the plant diameter calculations and a priori flexural modulus estimation, which is dependent on season and blueberry variety. We also share our dataset of live blueberry cane deformation, including RGB-D images and measured forces and displacements.