Tool Macgyvering: Tool Construction Using Geometric Reasoning
By Lakshmi Nair, Jonathan C. Balloch, Sonia Chernova. 2019
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MacGyvering is defined as creating or repairing something in an inventive or improvised way by utilizing objects that are available at hand. In this paper, we explore a subset of Macgyvering problems involving tool construction, i.e., creating tools from parts available in the environment. We formalize the overall problem domain of tool Macgyvering, introducing three levels of complexity for tool construction and substitution problems, and presenting a novel computational framework aimed at solving one level of the tool Macgyvering problem, specifically contributing a novel algorithm for tool construction based on geometric reasoning. We validate our approach by constructing three tools using a 7-DOF robot arm.
Subfields: Building and Construction, Control and Systems Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, LLM Agents & Tool Use
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Citations in the corpus
- PIQA: Reasoning about Physical Commonsense in Natural Language (2019, background): “…interaction and intuitive physics (Agrawal et al. 2016) can also be encoded as priors when exploring the world (Byravan et al. 2018) and internal models of physics, shape, and material strength enable advances in tool usage (Toussaint et al. 2018) or construction (Nair, Balloch, and Chernova 2019).”