让机器人能跟任意形态领导者走,还能自动避障
Follow Everything: A Leader-Following and Obstacle Avoidance Framework with Goal-Aware Adaptation
- 用分割模型识别领导者,不限形态
- 视觉丢失时仍能持续跟踪,碰撞率降低
- 适合真实场景中移动机器人跟随任务
鲁棒灵活的跟随能力是机器人融入人类社会的关键。现有方法难以泛化到任意形态的领导者,且在领导者短暂离开视野时易失效。本文提出统一框架解决上述问题:首先以分割模型替代传统检测模型,使领导者可为任意物体;引入距离帧缓冲区,存储多距离下的领导者嵌入特征,增强识别鲁棒性。其次设计基于目标感知的自适应机制,根据领导者可见性与运动状态调控机器人规划状态,并结合图规划器生成候选轨迹,实现高效跟随与障碍规避。仿真与真实世界实验使用腿式机器人作为跟随者,在室内外环境中对人类、地面机器人、无人机、腿式机器人及交通标志等多样领导者进行测试,结果表明:跟随成功率提升,视觉丢失时长减少,碰撞率下降,领导者-跟随者距离减小。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Robust and flexible leader-following is a critical capability for robots to integrate into human society. While existing methods struggle to generalize to leaders of arbitrary form and often fail when the leader temporarily leaves the robot's field of view, this work introduces a unified framework addressing both challenges. First, traditional detection models are replaced with a segmentation model, allowing the leader to be anything. To enhance recognition robustness, a distance frame buffer is implemented that stores leader embeddings at multiple distances, accounting for the unique characteristics of leader-following tasks. Second, a goal-aware adaptation mechanism is designed to govern robot planning states based on the leader's visibility and motion, complemented by a graph-based planner that generates candidate trajectories for each state, ensuring efficient following with obstacle avoidance. Simulations and real-world experiments with a legged robot follower and various leaders (human, ground robot, UAV, legged robot, stop sign) in both indoor and outdoor environments show competitive improvements in follow success rate, reduced visual loss duration, lower collision rate, and decreased leader-follower distance.
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