arXiv:2410.09883cs.RO2024-10被引 19

用物理约束神经网络实时构建导航时间场,让机器人自主规划路径。

Physics-informed Neural Mapping and Motion Planning in Unknown Environments

  • 基于泊松方程的神经时间场,直接生成可导航的环境映射
  • 无需专家数据,在仿真与真实机器人上均实现高效路径规划
  • 适用于差速轮式与六自由度机械臂,适合自主探索场景

地图构建与运动规划是机器人智能的核心环节,二者相互依赖。现有方法生成的地图需依赖计算成本高昂的规划工具才能求解路径。本文提出一种新映射特征——到达时间场(arrival time fields),其为埃克诺尔方程(Eikonal equation)的解。该场可直接指导机器人导航。为此,我们提出主动神经时间场(Active NTFields)框架,这是一种物理信息神经网络,能主动探索未知环境,并实时映射其到达时间场以支持运动规划。本方法无需专家数据,直接利用神经网络求解埃克诺尔方程,实现地图构建与路径规划一体化。我们在模拟环境和真实场景中,使用差速驱动机器人及6自由度机械臂进行了测试,结果表明该方法在性能上优于现有先进方法。补充视频见:https://youtu.be/qTPL5a6pRKk,代码仓库地址:https://github.com/Rtlyc/antfields-demo。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Mapping and motion planning are two essential elements of robot intelligence that are interdependent in generating environment maps and navigating around obstacles. The existing mapping methods create maps that require computationally expensive motion planning tools to find a path solution. In this paper, we propose a new mapping feature called arrival time fields, which is a solution to the Eikonal equation. The arrival time fields can directly guide the robot in navigating the given environments. Therefore, this paper introduces a new approach called Active Neural Time Fields (Active NTFields), which is a physics-informed neural framework that actively explores the unknown environment and maps its arrival time field on the fly for robot motion planning. Our method does not require any expert data for learning and uses neural networks to directly solve the Eikonal equation for arrival time field mapping and motion planning. We benchmark our approach against state-of-the-art mapping and motion planning methods and demonstrate its superior performance in both simulated and real-world environments with a differential drive robot and a 6 degrees-of-freedom (DOF) robot manipulator. The supplementary videos can be found at https://youtu.be/qTPL5a6pRKk, and the implementation code repository is available at https://github.com/Rtlyc/antfields-demo.

神经映射运动规划物理信息网络

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