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…ctory_initialization_method from OMPL to fillTrajectory
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| - *trajectory_initializaiton_method*: the type of initialization of the trajectory can be supplied here for CHOMP, this can be ``quintic-spline``, ``linear``, ``cubic`` or ``fillTrajectory``. The first three options refer to the interpolation methods used for trajectory initialization between start and goal states. ``fillTrajectory`` provides an option of initializing the trajectory from path computed from an existing motion planner like OMPL. | ||
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| Choosing parameters for CHOMP requires some sort of intuition based on the environment we are working in. One can have the default parameters for CHOMP and this works well in environments without obstacles. However in cases where the scene is populated with obstacles, we need to vary some parameters to ensure that CHOMP is not stuck in local minima, or quickly finds optimal solutions, preferring trajectories which avoids obstacles. Some parameters like increasing the *ridge_factor* to say 0.001 makes CHOMP avoids obstacles by not preferring smooth trajectories, so there is a trade-off between smoothness and CHOMP's ability to avoid obstacles. Choosing the correct number of *max_iterations*, *learning_rate* is important based on the environment we are working in. Not choosing the appropriate CHOMP parameters might lead to CHOMP reporting not finding a collision-free path. *collision_clearance*, *collision_threshold* parameters are useful in specifying the minimum distance to be kept from obstacles to avoid collisions. |
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Choosing parameters for CHOMP requires some intuition that is informed by the planning environment. For instance, the default parameters for CHOMP work well in environments without obstacles; however, in environments with many obstacles the default parameters will likely cause CHOMP to get stuck in local minima. By tweaking parameters, we can improve the quality of plans generated by CHOMP.
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| Some of the unused/commented parameters are *hmc_stochasticity*, *hmc_annealing_factor*, *hmc_discretization*, *use_hamiltonian_montecarlo*, *animate_endeffector*, *animate_endeffector_segment*, *animate_path*, *random_jump_amount*, *add_randomness*. | ||
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| Difference between plans obtained by CHOMP and OMPL | ||
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| Optimizing planners optimize a cost function that may sometimes lead to surprising results: moving through a thin obstacle might be lower cost than a long, winding trajectory that avoids all collisions. In this section we make a distinction between paths obtained from CHOMP and contrast it to those obtained from OMPL. | ||
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| OMPL is a open source library for sampling based / randomized motion planning algorithms. Sampling based algorithms are probabilistically complete: a solution would be eventually found if one exists, however non-existence of a solution cannot be reported. These algorithms are efficient and usually find a solution quickly. OMPL does not contain any code related to collision checking or visualization as the designers of OMPL did not want to tie it to a any particular colision checker or visualization front end. The library is designed so it can be easily integrated into systems that provide the additional components. MoveIt integrates directly with OMPL and uses the motion planners from OMP as its default set of planners. The planners in OMPL are abstract; i.e. OMPL has no concept of a robot. Instead, MoveIt! configures OMPL and provides the back-end for OMPL to work with problems in Robotics. | ||
| OMPL is a open source library for sampling based / randomized motion planning algorithms. Sampling based algorithms are probabilistically complete: a solution would be eventually found if one exists, however non-existence of a solution cannot be reported. These algorithms are efficient and usually find a solution quickly. OMPL does not contain any code related to collision checking or visualization as the designers of OMPL did not want to tie it to a any particular collision checker or visualization front end. The library is designed so it can be easily integrated into systems that provide the additional components. MoveIt integrates directly with OMPL and uses the motion planners from OMPL as its default set of planners. The planners in OMPL are abstract; i.e. OMPL has no concept of a robot. Instead, MoveIt! configures OMPL and provides the back-end for OMPL to work with problems in Robotics. |
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Change all MoveIt -> MoveIt!
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| CHOMP: While most high-dimensional motion planners separate trajectory generation into distinct planning and optimization stages, CHOMP capitalizes on covariant gradient and functional gradient approaches to the optimization stage to design a motion planning algorithm based entirely on trajectory optimization. Given an infeasible naive trajectory, CHOMP reacts to the surrounding environment to quickly pull the trajectory out of collision while simultaneously optimizing dynamical quantities such as joint velocities and accelerations. It rapidly converges to a smooth collision-free trajectory that can be executed efficiently on the robot. A covariant update rule ensures that CHOMP quickly converges to a locally optimal trajectory. | ||
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| For scenes containing obstacles, CHOMP often generates paths which do not prefer smooth trajectories by addition of some noise (*ridge_factor*) in the cost function for the dynamical quantities of the robot (like acceleration, velocity). CHOMP is able to avoid obstacle in most cases but it can fail if it gets stuck in the local minima due to a bad initial guess for the trajectory. OMPL can be used to generate collision-free seed trajectories for CHOMP to mitigate this issue. |
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| #. The values of the ``planning_adapters`` is the order in which the mentioned adapters are called / invoked. Order here matters. Inside the CHOMP adapter, a `call <https://github.com/ros-planning/moveit/tree/kinetic-devel/moveit_ros/planning/planning_request_adapter_plugins/src/chomp_optimizer_adapter.cpp#L174>`_ to OMPL is made before invoking the CHOMP optimization solver, so CHOMP takes the initial path computed by OMPL as the starting point to further optimize it. |
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The values of the -> The order of the
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| #. The values of the ``planning_adapters`` is the order in which the mentioned adapters are called / invoked. Order here matters. Inside the CHOMP adapter, a `call <https://github.com/ros-planning/moveit/tree/kinetic-devel/moveit_ros/planning/planning_request_adapter_plugins/src/chomp_optimizer_adapter.cpp#L174>`_ to OMPL is made before invoking the CHOMP optimization solver, so CHOMP takes the initial path computed by OMPL as the starting point to further optimize it. |
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| #. The values of the ``planning_adapters`` is the order in which the mentioned adapters are called / invoked. Order here matters. Inside the CHOMP adapter, a `call <https://github.com/ros-planning/moveit/tree/kinetic-devel/moveit_ros/planning/planning_request_adapter_plugins/src/chomp_optimizer_adapter.cpp#L174>`_ to OMPL is made before invoking the CHOMP optimization solver, so CHOMP takes the initial path computed by OMPL as the starting point to further optimize it. |
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For the URL it is better to use variable substitution available in the conf.py so that it automatically updates when we switch from kinetic to melodic. I don't feel strongly that this should be changed here. Just a heads up that using the conf.py is a really good option.
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done added this in my latest commit
| Running OMPL as a pre-processor for STOMP | ||
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| NOTE: Currently the development for STOMP Smoothing Adapter is work in progress. |
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NOTE: The STOMP Smoothing Adapter is a work in progress.
| Running STOMP as a post-processor for CHOMP | ||
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| NOTE: Currently the development for STOMP Smoothing Adapter is work in progress. |
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Build failed for understandable reasons (missing files in current website) |
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ping @raghavendersahdev, @mlautman left some good feedback here |
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Travis fails because moveit/moveit#1012 is not merged in yet |
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ros-planning/moveit#1012 ready to be merged in |
This was referenced Oct 9, 2018
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Restarted build after merge. It will probably still fail, but less. |
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Addition of tutorial for running Planning Request Adapters in MoveIt
This PR is work done by Raghavender as a part of 2018 Google summer of code. As a part of this PR, a page on Planning Request Adapters has been created which enables the user to use multiple motion planners in a pipeline to produce robust motion plans. Some planning insights on using different motion planners is also provided as a part of this PR. @davetcoleman @mamoll
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ros-planning/moveitrepo will be made soon in a few dats for enabling the required STOMP adapter behavior