杂乱场景下小物体抓取检测研究

Small object grasping detection in cluttered scenes

目的 杂乱场景下的物体抓取姿态检测是智能机器人的一项基本技能。尽管六自由度抓取学习取得了进展,但先前的方法在采样和学习中忽略了物体尺寸差异,导致在小物体上抓取表现较差。方法 提出了一种物体掩码辅助采样方法,在所有物体上采样相同的点以平衡抓取分布,解决了采样点分布不均匀问题。此外,学习时采用多尺度学习策略,在物体部分点云上使用多尺度圆柱分组以提升局部几何表示能力,解决了由物体尺度差异导致的学习抓取操作参数困难问题。通过设计一个端到端的抓取网络,嵌入了提出的采样和学习方法,能够有效提升物体抓取检测性能。结果 在大型基准数据集GraspNet-1Billion上进行评估,本文方法取得对比方法中的最优性能,其中在小物体上的抓取指标平均提升了7%,大量的真实机器人实验也表明该方法具有抓取未知物体的良好泛化性能。结论 本文聚焦于小物体上的抓取,提出了一种掩码辅助采样方法嵌入到提出的端到端学习网络中,并引入了多尺度分组学习策略提高物体的局部几何表示,能够有效提升在小尺寸物体上的抓取质量,并在所有物体上的抓取评估结果都超过了对比方法。

Objective Object grasp pose detection in cluttered scenes is an essential skill for intelligent robots.Despiterecent advances in six degrees-of-freedom grasping learning,learning the grasping configuration of small objects isextremely challenging.First,given the huge amount of raw point cloud data,points in the scene should be downsampled toreduce the computational complexity of the network and increase detection efficiency.Meanwhile,previous sampling meth⁃ods sample fewer points on small objects,leading to difficulties in learning small object grasping poses.In addition,consumer-grade depth cameras currently available in the market are seriously noisy,particularly because the quality ofpoint clouds obtained on small objects cannot be guaranteed,leading to the possibility of unclear objecthood of points onsmall objects predicted by the network.Some feasible grasping points are mistakenly regarded as background points,fur⁃ther reducing the number of sampling points on small objects,resulting in weak grasping performance on small objects.Method A potential problem in previous grasp detection methods is that they do not consider the biased distribution of sam⁃pling points due to differences in the scale of objects in the scene,resulting in fewer sampling points on small objects.Inthis study,we propose an object mask-assisted sampling method that samples the same points on all objects to balance grasping distribution,solving the problem of the uneven distribution of sampling points.In the inference,without a prioriknowledge of scene point-level masks,we introduce an unseen object instance segmentation network to distinguish objectsin the scenario,implementing a mask-assisted sampling method.In addition,a multi-scale learning strategy is used forlearning,and multi-scale cylindrical grouping is used on the partial point clouds of objects to improve local geometric repre⁃sentation,solving the problem of difficulty in learning to grasp operational parameters caused by differences in objectscales.In particular,we set up three cylinders with different radii to sample the point cloud near the graspable point,corre⁃sponding to learning large,medium,and small object features,and then splice the features of the three scales.Subse⁃quently,we process the spliced features with a self-attention layer to enhance the attention of the local region and improvethe local geometric representation of the object.Similar to GraspNet,we design an end-to-end grasping network that con⁃sists of three parts:graspable points,approach direction,and prediction of gripper operation.Graspable points representthe high-scoring points in the scene that are suitable for grasping.They can perform the initial filtering of a large amount ofpoint cloud data in the scene and then embedded into the proposed sampling and learning methods to further predict theapproach direction and gripper operation for grasping poses on an object.By designing an end-to-end grasping networkembedded with the proposed sampling and learning approach,we can effectively improve object grasping detection capabil⁃ity.Result Finally,the proposed method achieves state-of-the-art performance when evaluated on the large benchmarkdataset GraspNet-1Billion,wherein the grasping metrics on small objects are improved by 7%on average,and a large num⁃ber of real robot experiments also show that the approach exhibits promising generalization performance on unseen objects.To more intuitively observe the improvement of the grasping performance of the proposed method on small objects,we alsouse the previous most representative method,i.e.,graspness-based sampling network(GSNet),as the benchmark methodand visualize the grasping detection results of the benchmark method and the proposed method in this study under four clut⁃tered scenarios.The visualization results show that the previous method tends to predict grasping on large objects in thescene but does not show reasonable grasping poses on some small objects.By contrast,the proposed method can accuratelypredict grasping poses on small objects.Conclusion Focusing on grasping small objects,this study proposes a maskassisted sampling method embedded into the proposed end-to-end learning network and introduces a multi-scale groupinglearning strategy to improve the local geometric representation of objects,effectively improving the quality of grasping smallobjects and outperforming previous methods in the evaluation of grasping all objects.However,the proposed method hascertain limitations.For example,when using noisy and low-quality depth maps as input,existing unseen object instancesegmentation methods may produce incorrect object masks,failing in mask-assisted sampling.In the future,we plan toinvestigate more robust unseen object instance segmentation methods that can correct erroneous segmentation results underlow-quality depth map input.This procedure will allow us to obtain more accurate object instance masks and enhanceobject grasping detection capability in cluttered scenes.