arXiv:2502.05038cs.ROcs.CV2025-02ICRA被引 4

用程序生成无限复杂环境,让无人机模拟实现长距离自主飞行。

FlightForge: Advancing UAV Research with Procedural Generation of High-Fidelity Simulation and Integrated Autonomy

  • 通过程序化生成技术构建无限扩展的高保真仿真环境。
  • 支持多模态传感器与逼真渲染,实现比现有工具更优的视觉效果。
  • 内置全自主飞行系统,适合研究长距离复杂环境导航任务。

机器人仿真器在无人飞行器(UAV)自主系统开发与测试中至关重要,但现有工具普遍缺乏高层级自主能力,难以支持未知环境中的自主导航等复杂任务。其瓶颈在于难以将真实物理、逼真渲染与多样化传感器融合于统一环境。同时,现有高保真无人机仿真器多依赖人工设计场景且规模有限,无法支持远距离任务,仅适用于控制与避障等低阶任务。为此,我们提出开源新仿真器 FlightForge。该系统具备先进渲染能力、多样控制方式,并核心实现了环境的程序化生成。此外,仿真环境已集成完整的自主飞行系统,可实现复杂未知环境中长距离飞行。关键创新在于新型程序化环境生成机制与高层自主性的无缝集成。实验表明,其传感器渲染性能优于现有仿真器,且可在近乎无限的环境中实现自主导航。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Robotic simulators play a crucial role in the development and testing of autonomous systems, particularly in the realm of Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAV). However, existing simulators often lack high-level autonomy, hindering their immediate applicability to complex tasks such as autonomous navigation in unknown environments. This limitation stems from the challenge of integrating realistic physics, photorealistic rendering, and diverse sensor modalities into a single simulation environment. At the same time, the existing photorealistic UAV simulators use mostly hand-crafted environments with limited environment sizes, which prevents the testing of long-range missions. This restricts the usage of existing simulators to only low-level tasks such as control and collision avoidance. To this end, we propose the novel FlightForge UAV open-source simulator. FlightForge offers advanced rendering capabilities, diverse control modalities, and, foremost, procedural generation of environments. Moreover, the simulator is already integrated with a fully autonomous UAV system capable of long-range flights in cluttered unknown environments. The key innovation lies in novel procedural environment generation and seamless integration of high-level autonomy into the simulation environment. Experimental results demonstrate superior sensor rendering capability compared to existing simulators, and also the ability of autonomous navigation in almost infinite environments.

无人机仿真程序生成自主导航

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