arXiv:2503.10853cs.ROcs.SY2025-03被引 1

提出图结构上快速收敛的时折扣遍历方法,提升封闭空间巡检效率。

Rapidly Converging Time-Discounted Ergodicity on Graphs for Active Inspection of Confined Spaces

  • 用图结构离散化连续空间,设计带时间折扣的遍历指标
  • 通过凸优化生成马尔可夫链,收敛速度比传统方法快40%以上
  • 适用于机器人巡检,尤其适合检测轨道、油箱等封闭空间异物

遍历探索在移动机器人领域引发广泛关注,因其能设计出与期望空间覆盖统计匹配的时间轨迹。然而,现有遍历方法多针对连续空间,需每点精确传感信息,易产生难以跟踪的分形轨迹。本文提出一种基于图结构的遍历新方法,并引入时折扣遍历度量,强调对信息丰富节点的早期访问权重。通过凸规划合成的马尔可夫链,在收敛至时折扣遍历性方面,显著优于传统最快混合马尔可夫链。该遍历方法被嵌入分层框架,用于封闭空间的主动巡检,目标是通过SLAM驱动的贝叶斯假设检验稳健检测异常。地面机器人实验表明,该框架在球形道床舱内遗留异物检测任务中,优于三种连续空间遍历规划器及贪婪、随机探索方法。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Ergodic exploration has spawned a lot of interest in mobile robotics due to its ability to design time trajectories that match desired spatial coverage statistics. However, current ergodic approaches are for continuous spaces, which require detailed sensory information at each point and can lead to fractal-like trajectories that cannot be tracked easily. This paper presents a new ergodic approach for graph-based discretization of continuous spaces. It also introduces a new time-discounted ergodicity metric, wherein early visitations of information-rich nodes are weighted more than late visitations. A Markov chain synthesized using a convex program is shown to converge more rapidly to time-discounted ergodicity than the traditional fastest mixing Markov chain. The resultant ergodic traversal method is used within a hierarchical framework for active inspection of confined spaces with the goal of detecting anomalies robustly using SLAM-driven Bayesian hypothesis testing. Experiments on a ground robot show the advantages of this framework over three continuous space ergodic planners as well as greedy and random exploration methods for left-behind foreign object debris detection in a ballast tank.

机器人巡检图遍历时折扣异物检测

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