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Learning Polynomial Representations of Physical Objects with Application to Certifying Correct Packing Configurations

Optimization and Control 2023-12-13 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

This paper introduces a novel approach for learning polynomial representations of physical objects. Given a point cloud data set associated with a physical object, we solve a one-class classification problem to bound the data points by a polynomial sublevel set while harnessing Sum-of-Squares (SOS) programming to enforce prior shape knowledge constraints. By representing objects as polynomial sublevel sets we further show it is possible to construct a secondary SOS program to certify whether objects are packed correctly, that is object boundaries do not overlap and are inside some container set. While not employing reinforcement learning (RL) in this work, our proposed secondary SOS program does provide a potential surrogate reward function for RL algorithms, autonomously rewarding agents that propose object rotations and translations that correctly pack objects within a given container set.

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@article{arxiv.2312.06791,
  title  = {Learning Polynomial Representations of Physical Objects with Application to Certifying Correct Packing Configurations},
  author = {Morgan Jones},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.06791},
  year   = {2023}
}
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