用模糊控制+预测控制,让多机器人搜救更高效省算力。
Model Predictive Fuzzy Control: A Hierarchical Multi-Agent Control Architecture for Outdoor Search-and-Rescue Robots
- 分层架构:本地用快速模糊控制器,中央用预测控制器调参。
- 仿真显示性能接近集中式最优,但计算量大幅降低。
- 适合需要实时响应的野外搜救机器人系统。
在未知灾难环境中部署自主机器人可显著提升搜救效率。本文提出一种新型分层控制架构——模型预测模糊控制(MPFC),用于多机器人搜救任务的自主规划。该架构结合模型预测控制(MPC)与模糊逻辑控制(FLC):机器人本地由计算高效的FLC控制器驱动,其参数通过中心化MPC控制器定期或事件触发式优化。该设计具备三大优势:(1) 控制决策由本地FLC完成,保证实时性;(2) 中心化MPC具有全局预测能力,优化性能指标并更新本地控制器参数;(3) 尽管FLC本身不追求最优,但经MPC调参后可间接引入局部决策的优化性。在MATLAB中构建基于离散二维网格的灾害环境仿真,结果表明:相较于去中心化FLC,MPFC性能相当且计算效率相近;相比集中式MPC路径规划,性能接近,但优化变量数量显著减少,所需计算资源大幅降低。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Autonomous robots deployed in unknown search-and-rescue (SaR) environments can significantly improve the efficiency of the mission by assisting in fast localisation and rescue of the trapped victims. We propose a novel integrated hierarchical control architecture, called model predictive fuzzy control (MPFC), for autonomous mission planning of multi-robot SaR systems that should efficiently map an unknown environment: We combine model predictive control (MPC) and fuzzy logic control (FLC), where the robots are locally controlled by computationally efficient FLC controllers, and the parameters of these local controllers are tuned via a centralised MPC controller, in a regular or event-triggered manner. The proposed architecture provides three main advantages: (1) The control decisions are made by the FLC controllers, thus the real-time computation time is affordable. (2) The centralised MPC controller optimises the performance criteria with a global and predictive vision of the system dynamics, and updates the parameters of the FLC controllers accordingly. (3) FLC controllers are heuristic by nature and thus do not take into account optimality in their decisions, while the tuned parameters via the MPC controller can indirectly incorporate some level of optimality in local decisions of the robots. A simulation environment for victim detection in a disaster environment was designed in MATLAB using discrete, 2-D grid-based models. While being comparable from the point of computational efficiency, the integrated MPFC architecture improves the performance of the multi-robot SaR system compared to decentralised FLC controllers. Moreover, the performance of MPFC is comparable to the performance of centralised MPC for path planning of SaR robots, whereas MPFC requires significantly less computational resources, since the number of the optimisation variables in the control problem are reduced.
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