arXiv:2509.14978cs.RO2025-09被引 14

让四旋翼在未知环境里边飞边看,自动避开障碍并探索新区域。

PA-MPPI: Perception-Aware Model Predictive Path Integral Control for Quadrotor Navigation in Unknown Environments

  • 基于感知目标在线优化飞行路径,主动朝未知区域调整方向
  • 硬件实测每秒50次运行,在复杂场景下性能媲美顶尖导航算法
  • 适合用于导航大模型的底层控制,能处理无法直接到达的目标点

四旋翼在未知环境中的自主导航对搜救等实际任务至关重要。该问题需应对三大挑战:非凸自由空间下的路径规划、满足四旋翼动力学与特定目标(如能耗最小),以及探索未知区域以扩展地图。近年来,模型预测路径积分(MPPI)方法在前两个挑战上表现出色,通过采样优化可有效处理非凸空间,并直接对完整四旋翼动力学进行优化,支持能耗等特定代价。然而,传统MPPI仅限于参考轨迹附近的跟踪控制,缺乏探索未知区域或在被大障碍阻塞时规划替代路径的能力。为此,本文提出感知意识的MPPI(PA-MPPI)。该方法通过引入感知代价,使轨迹在目标被遮挡时倾向于观察未知区域,从而扩展可通行地图,提高找到替代路径的概率。硬件实验表明,PA-MPPI以50 Hz频率运行,在复杂测试场景中性能与当前最优四旋翼导航算法相当。此外,我们证明其可作为导航基础模型的安全可靠动作策略,能应对不可直接抵达的目标位姿。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Quadrotor navigation in unknown environments is critical for practical missions such as search-and-rescue. Solving this problem requires addressing three key challenges: path planning in non-convex free space due to obstacles, satisfying quadrotor-specific dynamics and objectives, and exploring unknown regions to expand the map. Recently, the Model Predictive Path Integral (MPPI) method has emerged as a promising solution to the first two challenges. By leveraging sampling-based optimization, it can effectively handle non-convex free space while directly optimizing over the full quadrotor dynamics, enabling the inclusion of quadrotor-specific costs such as energy consumption. However, MPPI has been limited to tracking control that optimizes trajectories only within a small neighborhood around a reference trajectory, as it lacks the ability to explore unknown regions and plan alternative paths when blocked by large obstacles. To address this limitation, we introduce Perception-Aware MPPI (PA-MPPI). In this approach, perception-awareness is characterized by planning and adapting the trajectory online based on perception objectives. Specifically, when the goal is occluded, PA-MPPI incorporates a perception cost that biases trajectories toward those that can observe unknown regions. This expands the mapped traversable space and increases the likelihood of finding alternative paths to the goal. Through hardware experiments, we demonstrate that PA-MPPI, running at 50 Hz, performs on par with the state-of-the-art quadrotor navigation planner for unknown environments in challenging test scenarios. Furthermore, we show that PA-MPPI can serve as a safe and robust action policy for navigation foundation models, which often provide goal poses that are not directly reachable.

四旋翼导航路径规划感知意识实时控制

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