Collision-Free Path Planning in 3D Environments - A 3D Gaussian Splatting Approach

Furtwangen University
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Abstract

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Pipeline

Pipeline

Our pipeline. The 3DGS scene is converted to a voxel grid, which is then used for collision detection. The camera path is generated using the Open Motion Planning Library (OMPL) and smoothed before being exported to Nerfstudio for rendering.

References

3DGS Paper Bernhard Kerbl, Georgios Kopanas, Thomas Leimkühler, and George Drettakis. 2023. 3D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering. arXiv:2308.04079 [cs.GR] https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.04079
OMPL Ioan A. Şucan, Mark Moll, and Lydia E. Kavraki. 2012. The Open Motion Planning Library. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine 19, 4 (December 2012), 72–82. https://doi.org/10.1109/MRA.2012.2205651 https://ompl.kavrakilab.org
Nerfstudio Matthew Tancik, Ethan Weber, Evonne Ng, Ruilong Li, Brent Yi, Justin Kerr, Terrance Wang, Alexander Kristoffersen, Jake Austin, Kamyar Salahi, Abhik Ahuja, David McAllister, and Angjoo Kanazawa. 2023. Nerfstudio: A Modular Framework for Neural Radiance Field Development. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2023 Conference Proceedings (SIGGRAPH ’23).
Stonehenge dataset Splat-Nav: Safe Real-Time Robot Navigation in Gaussian Splatting Maps. arXiv:2403.02751 [cs.RO] https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02751
Stonehenge Icon https://en.silhouette-ac.com/silhouette/139528/stonehenge