无需固定基站,机器人可主动调整位置以提升彼此定位精度。
Infrastructure-less UWB-based Active Relative Localization
- 通过动态调整自身位置来优化相对定位误差
- 实测与仿真显示定位误差降低最高达60%
- 适合需要高灵活性的多机器人协同场景
在多机器人系统中,平台间的相对定位对领航跟随、目标追踪和协同机动等任务至关重要。现有技术分为依赖固定基础设施或无基础设施两类。前者精度高但需外部结构,后者虽灵活却大多依赖摄像头或激光雷达,要求视距可见。超宽带(UWB)设备作为无基础设施方案的新选择,可不依赖视距部署于机器人上。然而,现有方法通常要求至少一个平台静止,限制了灵活性。本文提出一种主动式无基础设施相对定位方法,允许机器人主动调整位置以最小化另一平台的定位误差。首先设计了适用于主动定位的锚点布局;其次提出新型UWB相对定位损失函数,将几何稀释精度(GDOP)适配至无基础设施场景;最后基于该损失训练基于深度强化学习的控制器。大量仿真实验与真实世界测试验证了方法有效性,相比当前最先进方法,定位误差最高降低60%。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
In multi-robot systems, relative localization between platforms plays a crucial role in many tasks, such as leader following, target tracking, or cooperative maneuvering. State of the Art (SotA) approaches either rely on infrastructure-based or on infrastructure-less setups. The former typically achieve high localization accuracy but require fixed external structures. The latter provide more flexibility, however, most of the works use cameras or lidars that require Line-of-Sight (LoS) to operate. Ultra Wide Band (UWB) devices are emerging as a viable alternative to build infrastructure-less solutions that do not require LoS. These approaches directly deploy the UWB sensors on the robots. However, they require that at least one of the platforms is static, limiting the advantages of an infrastructure-less setup. In this work, we remove this constraint and introduce an active method for infrastructure-less relative localization. Our approach allows the robot to adapt its position to minimize the relative localization error of the other platform. To this aim, we first design a specialized anchor placement for the active localization task. Then, we propose a novel UWB Relative Localization Loss that adapts the Geometric Dilution Of Precision metric to the infrastructure-less scenario. Lastly, we leverage this loss function to train an active Deep Reinforcement Learning-based controller for UWB relative localization. An extensive simulation campaign and real-world experiments validate our method, showing up to a 60% reduction of the localization error compared to current SotA approaches.
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