用稀疏高斯过程实时评估地形可通行性,提升机器人在复杂环境中的导航能力。
Real-time Spatial-temporal Traversability Assessment via Feature-based Sparse Gaussian Process
- 基于点云直接提取曲率、坡度等几何特征,构建高分辨率局部可通行地图。
- 融合历史与实时数据的时空贝叶斯核方法,实现动态可通行性评分,精度优于现有方法。
- 支持实时运行,适合用于户外复杂地形下的自主导航系统开发。
地形分析对地面移动机器人在真实场景中的应用至关重要,尤其在非结构化户外环境中。本文提出一种新型时空可通行性评估方法,使自主机器人能够有效穿越复杂地形。该方法利用稀疏高斯过程(SGP)直接从点云扫描中提取曲率、梯度、高程等几何特征,并据此构建高分辨率局部可通行地图。随后设计了一种时空贝叶斯高斯核(BGK)推理方法,动态评估可通行性得分,融合历史与实时数据,同时考虑坡度、平坦度、梯度及不确定性指标。特征提取步骤采用GPU加速,系统实现实时性能。在多种地形场景的大量仿真实验中,本方法在准确性和计算效率上均优于现有最优技术。此外,我们构建了集成可通行地图的自主导航框架,并在差速驱动车辆上于复杂户外环境完成验证。代码将开源,供社区进一步研究与开发,https://github.com/ZJU-FAST-Lab/FSGP_BGK。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Terrain analysis is critical for the practical ap- plication of ground mobile robots in real-world tasks, espe- cially in outdoor unstructured environments. In this paper, we propose a novel spatial-temporal traversability assessment method, which aims to enable autonomous robots to effectively navigate through complex terrains. Our approach utilizes sparse Gaussian processes (SGP) to extract geometric features (curvature, gradient, elevation, etc.) directly from point cloud scans. These features are then used to construct a high- resolution local traversability map. Then, we design a spatial- temporal Bayesian Gaussian kernel (BGK) inference method to dynamically evaluate traversability scores, integrating historical and real-time data while considering factors such as slope, flatness, gradient, and uncertainty metrics. GPU acceleration is applied in the feature extraction step, and the system achieves real-time performance. Extensive simulation experiments across diverse terrain scenarios demonstrate that our method outper- forms SOTA approaches in both accuracy and computational efficiency. Additionally, we develop an autonomous navigation framework integrated with the traversability map and validate it with a differential driven vehicle in complex outdoor envi- ronments. Our code will be open-source for further research and development by the community, https://github.com/ZJU-FAST-Lab/FSGP_BGK.
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