用惯性数据预测轮式机器人越野稳定性,无需地形或受力信息。
Learning to Predict Mobile Robot Stability in Off-Road Environments
- 基于IMU和速度数据,用轻量神经网络直接估算稳定性。
- 提出C3分数作为视觉代理指标,训练模型在多种地形上泛化良好。
- 适合农业、太空等复杂场景下的移动操作与路径规划任务。
轮式移动机器人在非结构化地形中导航面临动态崎岖环境的挑战。传统物理稳定性指标如静态稳定裕度(SSM)或零力矩点(ZMP)需精确测量接触力、地形几何和质心位置,但在真实野外条件下难以准确获取。本文提出一种基于学习的方法,通过轻量级神经网络IMUnet,直接从本体感知数据估计机器人平台稳定性,无需显式地形模型或力传感。我们还开发了一种新型基于视觉的ArUco跟踪方法,计算一个标量评分——C3分数,通过图像空间随时间的扰动来代理物理不稳定性,并作为神经网络模型的训练信号。作为初步研究,我们在多种地形类型和速度下收集的数据上评估该方法,验证了其对未见过条件的泛化能力。初步结果表明,利用IMU和机器人速度输入可有效估计平台稳定性。该方法适用于精密执行和感知任务的控制门控,尤其在农业和太空应用中的移动操作中具有潜力。同时,该学习方法也为基于感知的可通行性估计与规划提供了监督机制。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Navigating in off-road environments for wheeled mobile robots is challenging due to dynamic and rugged terrain. Traditional physics-based stability metrics, such as Static Stability Margin (SSM) or Zero Moment Point (ZMP) require knowledge of contact forces, terrain geometry, and the robot's precise center-of-mass that are difficult to measure accurately in real-world field conditions. In this work, we propose a learning-based approach to estimate robot platform stability directly from proprioceptive data using a lightweight neural network, IMUnet. Our method enables data-driven inference of robot stability without requiring an explicit terrain model or force sensing. We also develop a novel vision-based ArUco tracking method to compute a scalar score to quantify robot platform stability called C3 score. The score captures image-space perturbations over time as a proxy for physical instability and is used as a training signal for the neural network based model. As a pilot study, we evaluate our approach on data collected across multiple terrain types and speeds and demonstrate generalization to previously unseen conditions. These initial results highlight the potential of using IMU and robot velocity as inputs to estimate platform stability. The proposed method finds application in gating robot tasks such as precision actuation and sensing, especially for mobile manipulation tasks in agricultural and space applications. Our learning method also provides a supervision mechanism for perception based traversability estimation and planning.
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