提出可应对临时与永久故障的多机器人自适应跟踪框架。
Failure-Aware Multi-Robot Coordination for Resilient and Adaptive Target Tracking
- 按故障类型分组:临时故障动态避险,永久故障独立运行
- 连接组用部分集中优化协作,断连组用去中心化决策持续贡献
- 适用于真实复杂环境,提升系统韧性与适应性
多机器人协同对自主系统至关重要,但现实部署常遭遇感知与通信的临时或永久中断,若未显式建模将严重削弱系统鲁棒性与性能。现有研究对此关注不足。为此,本文提出统一的故障感知协同框架,实现临时与永久故障条件下的弹性、自适应多机器人目标跟踪。方法区分两类故障:(1)概率性临时中断,通过动态路径调整与规避推断危险区恢复;(2)永久失效,机器人感知或通信能力永久丧失,需持续去中心化行为调整。团队被划分为子组:仍连接的机器人组成通信组,采用部分集中式非线性优化协同规划;断连或失效的机器人则通过去中心化或个体优化独立运行,维持局部任务贡献。在多种基准变体及真实世界故障场景下广泛评估,结果表明该框架在未知危险区域环境中始终表现稳健,为多机器人系统提供实用且通用的解决方案。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Multi-robot coordination is crucial for autonomous systems, yet real-world deployments often encounter various failures. These include both temporary and permanent disruptions in sensing and communication, which can significantly degrade system robustness and performance if not explicitly modeled. Despite its practical importance, failure-aware coordination remains underexplored in the literature. To bridge the gap between idealized conditions and the complexities of real-world environments, we propose a unified failure-aware coordination framework designed to enable resilient and adaptive multi-robot target tracking under both temporary and permanent failure conditions. Our approach systematically distinguishes between two classes of failures: (1) probabilistic and temporary disruptions, where robots recover from intermittent sensing or communication losses by dynamically adapting paths and avoiding inferred danger zones, and (2) permanent failures, where robots lose sensing or communication capabilities irreversibly, requiring sustained, decentralized behavioral adaptation. To handle these scenarios, the robot team is partitioned into subgroups. Robots that remain connected form a communication group and collaboratively plan using partially centralized nonlinear optimization. Robots experiencing permanent disconnection or failure continue to operate independently through decentralized or individual optimization, allowing them to contribute to the task within their local context. We extensively evaluate our method across a range of benchmark variations and conduct a comprehensive assessment under diverse real-world failure scenarios. Results show that our framework consistently achieves robust performance in realistic environments with unknown danger zones, offering a practical and generalizable solution for the multi-robot systems community.
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