触覚能動知覚によるヒューマノイドナビゲーション
TAPNAV: Humanoid Navigation through Tactile Active Perception
視覚が使えない環境で、周囲の構造に触れて情報を得ながら目標へ移動するヒューマノイドナビゲーション手法TAPNAVを提案し、シミュレーションと実機で有効性を示した。
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著者: Huaze Liu, Zhenyu Wu, Jaehwi Jang, Junjie Sheng, Andrew Collins, Aaron Xie, Zhaoyuan Gu, Kaijie Zhu, Ding Jiang, Kevin Cai, Ye Zhao
分類: cs.RO
原文アブストラクト
Navigation in vision-denied environments is challenging for humanoid robots because proprioceptive odometry drifts and localization uncertainty accumulates rapidly. We present TAPNAV, a tactile active-perception framework that enables humanoid navigation toward a goal by actively probing surrounding structures without relying on vision. TAPNAV maintains a pose belief from odometry, IMU, and tactile contact observations, and couples uncertainty-aware global route planning with information-gain-driven local probing. The global planner searches for routes that keep predicted localization uncertainty bounded by exploiting opportunities for tactile correction, while the local planner selects probe actions that maximize expected information gain. A whole-body controller coordinates the humanoid's locomotion and end-effector contact to execute the planned navigation and probe motions. We evaluate TAPNAV in simulation and on a Unitree G1 across different floor plans and obstacle geometries. TAPNAV achieves lower state estimation error and a higher task completion rate than baselines. These results demonstrate that actively planning physical interactions with the environment can provide localization cues for reliable humanoid navigation without vision.