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Automatically Encoding, Modifying, and Finding Robot Skills to Repair High-Level Tasks

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Pacheck_cornellgrad_0058F_13004.pdf (29.35 MB)
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https://doi.org/10.7298/nxzk-0a14
https://hdl.handle.net/1813/111769
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Author
Pacheck, Adam
Abstract

A typical approach for producing complex robot behaviors is to compose atomic controllers (or skills) such that the resulting behavior satisfies a high-level task. However, when a task cannot be accomplished with a given set of skills, it is difficult to know the reason, and even more difficult to know how to modify the skills to make the task feasible. In this dissertation, I will present methods to automatically symbolically encode and modify existing robot skills in order to make infeasible tasks feasible. This requires starting from the given physical robot skills, going to a symbolic representation of the skills to find modifications, and then physically implementing the modified skills. I will automatically encode robot skills in the Generalized Reactivity (1) (GR(1)) fragment of Linear Temporal Logic. Given the robot skills and an infeasible user-provided task encoded in GR(1), I will present methods to symbolically modify the robot skills to make the task feasible. Furthermore, I will explore feedback between the automatic symbolic and physical modification of skills. I will demonstrate these methods on both simulated and physical robots, including a Baxter and a Clearpath Jackal.

Description
177 pages
Date Issued
2022-05
Keywords
Formal Methods
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Skill Modification
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Specification Repair
Committee Chair
Kress-Gazit, Hadas
Committee Member
Campbell, Mark
Hoffman, Guy
Degree Discipline
Mechanical Engineering
Degree Name
Ph. D., Mechanical Engineering
Degree Level
Doctor of Philosophy
Rights
Attribution 4.0 International
Rights URI
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Type
dissertation or thesis
Link(s) to Catalog Record
https://newcatalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/15529855

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