arXiv:2411.18009cs.ROcs.CV2024-11被引 1

仅用视觉传感器实现固定翼无人机高速避障,实时性强。

Monocular Obstacle Avoidance Based on Inverse PPO for Fixed-wing UAVs

  • 基于逆PPO强化学习,结合单帧深度估计实现轻量级避障
  • 在30m/s巡航速度下成功避开未知障碍,避障成功率高
  • 适合资源受限的边缘设备,适用于低空经济与城市空中交通

固定翼无人机因续航长、速度快,是低空经济与城市空中交通的重要平台。传统避障系统依赖先验地图或复杂传感器,在未知低空环境和小型平台中受限。本文提出一种轻量级深度强化学习避障系统,仅使用机载视觉传感器,即可在超过30m/s的巡航速度下实现对未知障碍物的有效避让。系统采用简化网络架构的单帧图像深度估计模块,支持边缘计算设备实时运行。设计了新型奖励函数的强化学习控制器,兼顾目标逼近与飞行轨迹平滑性,满足固定翼无人机的动力学约束与稳定性要求。引入自适应熵调节机制,缓解强化学习中的探索-利用权衡,提升训练收敛速度与避障成功率。软硬件闭环实验表明,该框架在避障效率与轨迹平滑性方面优于现有方法,并验证了在边缘设备上的可行性。源代码已公开于:https://github.com/ch9397/FixedWing-MonoPPO。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Fixed-wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are one of the most commonly used platforms for the burgeoning Low-altitude Economy (LAE) and Urban Air Mobility (UAM), due to their long endurance and high-speed capabilities. Classical obstacle avoidance systems, which rely on prior maps or sophisticated sensors, face limitations in unknown low-altitude environments and small UAV platforms. In response, this paper proposes a lightweight deep reinforcement learning (DRL) based UAV collision avoidance system that enables a fixed-wing UAV to avoid unknown obstacles at cruise speed over 30m/s, with only onboard visual sensors. The proposed system employs a single-frame image depth inference module with a streamlined network architecture to ensure real-time obstacle detection, optimized for edge computing devices. After that, a reinforcement learning controller with a novel reward function is designed to balance the target approach and flight trajectory smoothness, satisfying the specific dynamic constraints and stability requirements of a fixed-wing UAV platform. An adaptive entropy adjustment mechanism is introduced to mitigate the exploration-exploitation trade-off inherent in DRL, improving training convergence and obstacle avoidance success rates. Extensive software-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop experiments demonstrate that the proposed framework outperforms other methods in obstacle avoidance efficiency and flight trajectory smoothness and confirm the feasibility of implementing the algorithm on edge devices. The source code is publicly available at \url{https://github.com/ch9397/FixedWing-MonoPPO}.

无人机避障强化学习视觉感知边缘计算

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