arXiv:2505.13722cs.ROastro-ph.EP2025-05被引 2

用虚拟数字孪生系统训练太空机器人操作,提升任务效率与安全性。

Practice Makes Perfect: A Study of Digital Twin Technology for Assembly and Problem-solving using Lunar Surface Telerobotics

  • 构建虚拟现实数字孪生系统,模拟月面机器人操作场景。
  • 训练后任务时间减少28%,不可恢复错误下降85%。
  • 适合航天员培训与复杂任务实时问题解决场景。

能穿越行星或月面、采集环境数据并执行装配或采矿等物理操作的机器人系统,被视为未来太空活动的核心。然而,这些机器人在运行环境中面临挑战,难以实现完全自主,因此未来任务仍需人类远程操控或监督。为降低操作失误和任务失败风险,操作员需接受训练以应对突发状况。尽管如喷气推进实验室的火星场地这类实地模拟环境可提供训练支持,但其资源稀缺且成本高昂。为此,我们探索了虚拟现实数字孪生系统的构建与评估,用于训练人类对带机械臂的月面机器人进行远程操作。通过24名操作员参与的实验,研究该系统在预任务训练及真实任务中解决突发问题的能力。在模拟月面部署偶极天线的任务中,使用数字孪生系统训练的操作员,任务完成时间减少28%,不可恢复错误下降85%,同时认知负荷降低,情境意识增强。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Robotic systems that can traverse planetary or lunar surfaces to collect environmental data and perform physical manipulation tasks, such as assembling equipment or conducting mining operations, are envisioned to form the backbone of future human activities in space. However, the environmental conditions in which these robots, or "rovers," operate present challenges toward achieving fully autonomous solutions, meaning that rover missions will require some degree of human teleoperation or supervision for the foreseeable future. As a result, human operators require training to successfully direct rovers and avoid costly errors or mission failures, as well as the ability to recover from any issues that arise on the fly during mission activities. While analog environments, such as JPL's Mars Yard, can help with such training by simulating surface environments in the real world, access to such resources may be rare and expensive. As an alternative or supplement to such physical analogs, we explore the design and evaluation of a virtual reality digital twin system to train human teleoperation of robotic rovers with mechanical arms for space mission activities. We conducted an experiment with 24 human operators to investigate how our digital twin system can support human teleoperation of rovers in both pre-mission training and in real-time problem solving in a mock lunar mission in which users directed a physical rover in the context of deploying dipole radio antennas. We found that operators who first trained with the digital twin showed a 28% decrease in mission completion time, an 85% decrease in unrecoverable errors, as well as improved mental markers, including decreased cognitive load and increased situation awareness.

数字孪生遥操作月面任务虚拟现实

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