arXiv:2502.16887cs.RO2025-02中稿 · IEEE Transactions …被引 20

超轻量无人机群规划器,千架无人机实时协同飞行

Primitive-Swarm: An Ultra-lightweight and Scalable Planner for Large-scale Aerial Swarms

  • 用时优轨迹库+离线预计算,把复杂优化变快速选择
  • 每秒处理1000架无人机,单次计算<1毫秒,飞行距离最短
  • 适合大规模无人机编队、智能交通等实时协同场景

由于计算效率与可扩展性之间的固有矛盾,实现大规模空中编队极具挑战。本文提出Primitive-Swarm,一种专为大规模自主空中编队设计的超轻量级可扩展规划器。该方法采用去中心化异步重规划策略,构建包含时间最优且动力学可行轨迹的新颖运动基元库,基于可达性分析的时间最优路径参数化算法(TOPP-RA)生成。通过将运动基元与离散环境空间关联,开发出快速碰撞检测机制,同时处理机器人-障碍物和机器人-机器人间的时空冲突。重规划过程中,每架无人机根据用户需求从基元库中选择安全且代价最小的轨迹。时优运动基元库与占用信息均离线计算,将耗时优化问题转化为线性复杂度的选择问题。该方法能全面探索充满大量障碍物和机器人的非凸、不连续三维安全空间,有效发现隐藏最佳路径。基准对比表明,在密集环境中,本方法实现最短飞行时间与航程,计算时间低于1毫秒。支持高达1000架无人机的超大规模实时仿真,验证了其可扩展性。真实世界实验验证了方法的可行性与鲁棒性。代码将公开以促进社区协作。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Achieving large-scale aerial swarms is challenging due to the inherent contradictions in balancing computational efficiency and scalability. This paper introduces Primitive-Swarm, an ultra-lightweight and scalable planner designed specifically for large-scale autonomous aerial swarms. The proposed approach adopts a decentralized and asynchronous replanning strategy. Within it is a novel motion primitive library consisting of time-optimal and dynamically feasible trajectories. They are generated utlizing a novel time-optimial path parameterization algorithm based on reachability analysis (TOPP-RA). Then, a rapid collision checking mechanism is developed by associating the motion primitives with the discrete surrounding space according to conflicts. By considering both spatial and temporal conflicts, the mechanism handles robot-obstacle and robot-robot collisions simultaneously. Then, during a replanning process, each robot selects the safe and minimum cost trajectory from the library based on user-defined requirements. Both the time-optimal motion primitive library and the occupancy information are computed offline, turning a time-consuming optimization problem into a linear-complexity selection problem. This enables the planner to comprehensively explore the non-convex, discontinuous 3-D safe space filled with numerous obstacles and robots, effectively identifying the best hidden path. Benchmark comparisons demonstrate that our method achieves the shortest flight time and traveled distance with a computation time of less than 1 ms in dense environments. Super large-scale swarm simulations, involving up to 1000 robots, running in real-time, verify the scalability of our method. Real-world experiments validate the feasibility and robustness of our approach. The code will be released to foster community collaboration.

无人机群路径规划实时系统可扩展

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