Foam: ロボット形状の球近似ツール
Foam: A Tool for Spherical Approximation of Robot Geometry
URDFファイルからロボット形状を球の集合で近似するオープンソースツールFoamを提案し、衝突判定や距離計算を高速化する。
著者: Sai Coumar, Gilbert Chang, Nihar Kodkani, Zachary Kingston
分類: cs.RO, cs.CG
原文アブストラクト
Many applications in robotics require primitive spherical geometry, especially in cases where efficient distance queries are necessary. Manual creation of spherical models is time-consuming and prone to errors. This paper presents Foam, a tool to generate spherical approximations of robot geometry from an input Universal Robot Description Format (URDF) file. Foam provides a robust preprocessing pipeline to handle mesh defects and a number of configuration parameters to control the level and approximation of the spherization, and generates an output URDF with collision geometry specified only by spheres. We demonstrate Foam on a number of standard robot models on common tasks, and demonstrate improved collision checking and distance query performance with only a minor loss in fidelity compared to the true collision geometry. We release our tool as an open source Python library and containerized command-line application to facilitate adoption across the robotics community.
