MS-MEM: Multi-Skill Manipulation-Enhanced Mapping via Uncertainty- and Disturbance-Aware Action Selection

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Accurate scene understanding in confined, cluttered spaces such as shelves is essential for service robots, as many everyday tasks require them to locate and retrieve objects reliably. Yet, it remains challenging due to severe occlusions, restricted accessibility, and the need to avoid excessive scene changes. In this paper, we propose Multi-Skill Manipulation-Enhanced Mapping (MS-MEM), an evidential framework for uncertainty-aware mapping that integrates active viewpoint selection, object pushing, and grasping. MS-MEM combines scene-level metric-semantic evidential belief estimators with an uncertainty-aware grasp representation. This representation is learned using a novel full-evidential grasp estimator that models both grasp affordance and orientation uncertainty. In our framework, candidate perception and manipulation actions are evaluated within a unified action selection pipeline using a common information gain criterion. For manipulation actions, we further introduce a collateral disturbance constraint (CDC) that discourages excessive changes to confident regions of the scene belief. This enables MS-MEM to select actions that effectively reduce map uncertainty while limiting collateral scene changes. Experimental results show that, compared with single-skill and unconstrained baselines that ignore scene disturbance, MS-MEM achieves higher mapping accuracy while substantially reducing scene disturbance, highlighting the synergistic effects of active viewpoint selection, push, and grasp actions.

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