用神经网络预测障碍物距离,实现复杂机器人避障的实时安全导航。
Learning Safety for Obstacle Avoidance via Control Barrier Functions
- 训练神经网络直接预测机器人与障碍物的间距,替代传统解析计算。
- 在杂乱环境中实现毫秒级求解,保持连续碰撞规避且轨迹动态可行。
- 适合非凸几何、未知构型的机器人,特别适用于实时控制场景。
障碍物避让是安全导航的核心,尤其对具有任意非凸几何形状的机器人在复杂环境中的运行至关重要。现有控制屏障函数(CBF)方法通常依赖于解析的间隙计算,这对复杂几何体不可行;或使用多面体近似,当机器人构型未知时又变得难以处理。为此,本文在大量机器人-障碍物配置数据上训练残差神经网络,实现即使在未见过的构型下也能快速、可计算地预测间隙。所预测的间隙定义局部安全球(LSB)半径,确保连续时间无碰撞导航。LSB边界被编码为离散时间高阶CBF(DHOCBF),其约束被纳入非线性优化框架。为提升可行性,提出一种新颖松弛技术。该框架确保连续时间步间刚体运动不发生碰撞,有效衔接离散控制与连续安全。实验表明,该方法能处理任意(包括非凸)机器人几何,生成杂乱环境中无碰撞且动态可行的轨迹。测试显示毫秒级求解时间与高预测精度,显著优于现有基于CBF的方法。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Obstacle avoidance is central to safe navigation, especially for robots with arbitrary and nonconvex geometries operating in cluttered environments. Existing Control Barrier Function (CBF) approaches often rely on analytic clearance computations, which are infeasible for complex geometries, or on polytopic approximations, which become intractable when robot configurations are unknown. To address these limitations, this paper trains a residual neural network on a large dataset of robot-obstacle configurations to enable fast and tractable clearance prediction, even at unseen configurations. The predicted clearance defines the radius of a Local Safety Ball (LSB), which ensures continuous-time collision-free navigation. The LSB boundary is encoded as a Discrete-Time High-Order CBF (DHOCBF), whose constraints are incorporated into a nonlinear optimization framework. To improve feasibility, a novel relaxation technique is applied. The resulting framework ensure that the robot's rigid-body motion between consecutive time steps remains collision-free, effectively bridging discrete-time control and continuous-time safety. We show that the proposed method handles arbitrary, including nonconvex, robot geometries and generates collision-free, dynamically feasible trajectories in cluttered environments. Experiments demonstrate millisecond-level solve times and high prediction accuracy, highlighting both safety and efficiency beyond existing CBF-based methods.
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