多机器人长距离协同规划,秒级生成高耦合路径。
Stratified Topological Autonomy for Long-Range Coordination (STALC)
- 分层拓扑图+高效混合整数规划,实现秒级协同路径生成。
- 在仿真中成功处理复杂场景,硬件实验验证真实数据建图与规划能力。
- 适合需跨时空协同的无人机、无人车等系统,尤其风险敏感任务。
本文提出分层拓扑自主性(STALC),一种面向真实环境中存在显著机器人间空间与时间依赖性的多机器人协同规划方法。核心是基于图的多机器人规划器,将拓扑图与新型计算高效的混合整数规划公式结合,在数秒内生成高度耦合的多机器人计划。为实现跨不同空间与时间尺度的自主规划,我们构建的图能捕捉自由空间区域与其他问题特定特征(如可通行性或风险)之间的连通性,并采用滚动时域规划实现局部避障与编队控制。通过模拟实验评估了多机器人侦察场景,机器人需自主协调穿越环境并最小化被观察者发现的风险。结果显示该方法可扩展至复杂多机器人规划场景;硬件实验则展示了从真实数据生成图并成功完成全层级规划以达成共享目标的能力。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
In this paper, we present Stratified Topological Autonomy for Long-Range Coordination (STALC), a hierarchical planning approach for multi-robot coordination in real-world environments with significant inter-robot spatial and temporal dependencies. At its core, STALC consists of a multi-robot graph-based planner which combines a topological graph with a novel, computationally efficient mixed-integer programming formulation to generate highly-coupled multi-robot plans in seconds. To enable autonomous planning across different spatial and temporal scales, we construct our graphs so that they capture connectivity between free-space regions and other problem-specific features, such as traversability or risk. We then use receding-horizon planners to achieve local collision avoidance and formation control. To evaluate our approach, we consider a multi-robot reconnaissance scenario where robots must autonomously coordinate to navigate through an environment while minimizing the risk of detection by observers. Through simulation-based experiments, we show that our approach is able to scale to address complex multi-robot planning scenarios. Through hardware experiments, we demonstrate our ability to generate graphs from real-world data and successfully plan across the entire hierarchy to achieve shared objectives.
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