Deep Measurement Updates for Bayes Filters - ICRA 2022 presentation

Presentation for the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2022 Johannes Pankert, Maria Vittoria Minniti, Lorenz Wellhausen, Marco Hutter Paper: Measurement update rules for Bayes filters often contain hand-crafted heuristics to compute observation probabilities for high-dimensional sensor data, like images. In this work, we propose the novel approach Deep Measurement Update (DMU) as a general update rule for a wide range of systems. DMU has a conditional encoder-decoder neural network structure to process depth images as raw inputs. Even though the network is trained only on synthetic data, the model shows good performance at evaluation time on real-world data. With our proposed training scheme primed data training , we demonstrate how the DMU models can be trained efficiently to be sensitive to condition variables without having to rely on a stochastic information bottleneck. We validate the proposed methods in multiple scenarios of increasing c