arXiv:2412.09989cs.ROcs.AI2024-12被引 17

一个安全滤波器让四足机器人在未知环境自适应避障,无需预先知道控制器或环境。

One Filter to Deploy Them All: Robust Safety for Quadrupedal Navigation in Unknown Environments

  • 基于激光雷达与扰动估计,实时构建安全区域并预测安全值函数。
  • 在仿真和硬件实验中成功保护多种控制器,在未知环境中保持安全。
  • 适合需要快速部署、高鲁棒性的四足机器人应用,如救援或巡检。

随着基于学习的腿式机器人方法日益普及,高效保障不同控制器与环境下的系统安全性至关重要。现有方法通常依赖对环境和安全约束的先验知识,或仅针对特定运动策略提供保障。为此,我们提出一种观测条件下的可达性安全滤波框架(OCR)。核心思想是使用一个OCR值网络(OCR-VN),在部署时预测新故障区域和动态不确定性的最优控制论安全值函数。OCR-VN通过激光雷达输入实现障碍物动态安全区域构建,并结合扰动估计模块应对实际环境中未建模的动力学不确定性。该预测的安全值函数用于构建自适应安全滤波器,必要时覆盖原始四足控制器以维持安全。在Unitree Go1四足机器人上,仿真与实测均表明该框架可自动保护多种分层控制器,适应新环境,且对未建模动力学具有鲁棒性,无需事先访问控制器或环境信息——因此称为“一个滤波器,通用于所有部署”。实验视频见项目主页。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

As learning-based methods for legged robots rapidly grow in popularity, it is important that we can provide safety assurances efficiently across different controllers and environments. Existing works either rely on a priori knowledge of the environment and safety constraints to ensure system safety or provide assurances for a specific locomotion policy. To address these limitations, we propose an observation-conditioned reachability-based (OCR) safety-filter framework. Our key idea is to use an OCR value network (OCR-VN) that predicts the optimal control-theoretic safety value function for new failure regions and dynamic uncertainty during deployment time. Specifically, the OCR-VN facilitates rapid safety adaptation through two key components: a LiDAR-based input that allows the dynamic construction of safe regions in light of new obstacles and a disturbance estimation module that accounts for dynamics uncertainty in the wild. The predicted safety value function is used to construct an adaptive safety filter that overrides the nominal quadruped controller when necessary to maintain safety. Through simulation studies and hardware experiments on a Unitree Go1 quadruped, we demonstrate that the proposed framework can automatically safeguard a wide range of hierarchical quadruped controllers, adapts to novel environments, and is robust to unmodeled dynamics without a priori access to the controllers or environments - hence, "One Filter to Deploy Them All". The experiment videos can be found on the project website.

四足机器人安全滤波动态避障

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