地面机器人融合激光与全景相机,实现复杂环境的高效语义探索与密集映射。
Semantic Exploration and Dense Mapping of Complex Environments using Ground Robot with Panoramic LiDAR-Camera Fusion
- 分离处理几何与语义视点,用优先级解耦采样生成多视角观测集。
- 在仿真与真实环境中均实现更快探索速度和更短路径,完成指定次数多视角观测。
- 适合需要高精度语义地图的机器人导航、自主巡检等场景。
本文提出一种基于地面机器人搭载激光雷达-全景相机的自主语义探索与密集语义目标映射系统。现有方法常难以平衡多视角高质量观测与避免重复移动。为此,我们将任务重定义为同时完成几何覆盖与语义视点观测,并分别管理语义与几何视点,提出新型优先级驱动解耦局部采样器生成局部视点集,实现显式的多视角语义检查与体素覆盖,且无冗余重复。在此基础上,构建分层规划器确保全局高效覆盖;提出安全激进探索状态机,在保证安全的前提下允许激进探索行为。系统包含即插即用的语义目标映射模块,可无缝集成先进SLAM算法,实现点云级别的密集语义目标映射。通过大量仿真与真实世界实验验证,仿真结果表明本方法探索更快、路径更短,且满足指定多视角观测次数;真实实验进一步证实其在非结构化环境中实现精准密集语义物体映射的有效性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
This paper presents a system for autonomous semantic exploration and dense semantic target mapping of a complex unknown environment using a ground robot equipped with a LiDAR-panoramic camera suite. Existing approaches often struggle to balance collecting high-quality observations from multiple view angles and avoiding unnecessary repetitive traversal. To fill this gap, we propose a complete system combining mapping and planning. We first redefine the task as completing both geometric coverage and semantic viewpoint observation. We then manage semantic and geometric viewpoints separately and propose a novel Priority-driven Decoupled Local Sampler to generate local viewpoint sets. This enables explicit multi-view semantic inspection and voxel coverage without unnecessary repetition. Building on this, we develop a hierarchical planner to ensure efficient global coverage. In addition, we propose a Safe Aggressive Exploration State Machine, which allows aggressive exploration behavior while ensuring the robot's safety. Our system includes a plug-and-play semantic target mapping module that integrates seamlessly with state-of-the-art SLAM algorithms for pointcloud-level dense semantic target mapping. We validate our approach through extensive experiments in both realistic simulations and complex real-world environments. Simulation results show that our planner achieves faster exploration and shorter travel distances while guaranteeing a specified number of multi-view inspections. Real-world experiments further confirm the system's effectiveness in achieving accurate dense semantic object mapping of unstructured environments.
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