用扩散模型动态选传感器,实时省电还准。
Belief-Conditioned One-Step Diffusion: Real-Time Trajectory Planning with Just-Enough Sensing
- 扩散模型结合信念图与传感器掩码,直接预测轨迹和定位误差
- 10毫秒内输出轨迹与不确定性,无需外部协方差传播
- 适合需节能的实时机器人导航场景,如无人船
配备丰富传感器的机器人可在部分可观测环境中可靠定位,但持续开启所有传感器既浪费又不可行。信念空间规划通过解析模型传播位姿信念协方差并启发式切换传感器——该方法脆弱且运行开销大。数据驱动方法(包括扩散模型)可从示范中学习多模态轨迹,但依赖始终精确的全局状态估计。我们解决一个开放问题:在已建图环境中完成任务时,每个位置只需激活最小传感器子集,以维持状态不确定性‘足够低’。核心洞察是:当扩散规划器显式条件于位姿信念栅格与传感器掩码时,其去噪轨迹的发散可作为预期定位误差的可微分校准代理。基于此,我们提出信念条件一阶段扩散(B-COD),仅需10毫秒前向计算,即可返回短时程轨迹、每路点的随机性方差及定位误差代理,无需外部协方差传播。我们证明该单一代理足以让软演员-评论家算法在线选择传感器,在优化能耗的同时控制位姿协方差增长。我们在无人水面艇上实现实时海试,结果表明其显著降低感知能耗,同时达到与始终开启传感器基线相当的任务达成率。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Robots equipped with rich sensor suites can localize reliably in partially-observable environments, but powering every sensor continuously is wasteful and often infeasible. Belief-space planners address this by propagating pose-belief covariance through analytic models and switching sensors heuristically--a brittle, runtime-expensive approach. Data-driven approaches--including diffusion models--learn multi-modal trajectories from demonstrations, but presuppose an accurate, always-on state estimate. We address the largely open problem: for a given task in a mapped environment, which \textit{minimal sensor subset} must be active at each location to maintain state uncertainty \textit{just low enough} to complete the task? Our key insight is that when a diffusion planner is explicitly conditioned on a pose-belief raster and a sensor mask, the spread of its denoising trajectories yields a calibrated, differentiable proxy for the expected localisation error. Building on this insight, we present Belief-Conditioned One-Step Diffusion (B-COD), the first planner that, in a 10 ms forward pass, returns a short-horizon trajectory, per-waypoint aleatoric variances, and a proxy for localisation error--eliminating external covariance rollouts. We show that this single proxy suffices for a soft-actor-critic to choose sensors online, optimising energy while bounding pose-covariance growth. We deploy B-COD in real-time marine trials on an unmanned surface vehicle and show that it reduces sensing energy consumption while matching the goal-reach performance of an always-on baseline.
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