机器人团队可动态拆分并自适应调整队形,通过复杂狭窄环境。
Subteaming and Adaptive Formation Control for Coordinated Multi-Robot Navigation
- 基于分层学习框架,先分组再协调导航
- 在室内外仿真与实体机器人实验中表现优异
- 适合需要灵活编队的多机器人协同任务
多机器人协同导航在多样化环境中至关重要。为保护中心的人类队友,机器人团队常需保持特定队形(如圆形)。但在狭窄走廊等复杂场景中,维持预设队形可能不可行。因此,团队必须能动态拆分为更小子团队,并自适应控制子团队穿越此类区域。为此,我们提出一种名为STAF的新方法,基于统一的分层学习框架:(1) 高层使用深度图切割实现团队拆分;(2) 中层通过图学习促进子团队间协同导航;(3) 低层策略学习则控制单个移动机器人到达目标位置并避障。我们在室内和室外环境中的仿真及真实机器人团队上进行了大量实验。结果表明,STAF实现了子团队划分与自适应队形控制的新能力,在挑战性场景下表现出色。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Coordinated multi-robot navigation is essential for robots to operate as a team in diverse environments. During navigation, robot teams usually need to maintain specific formations, such as circular formations to protect human teammates at the center. However, in complex scenarios such as narrow corridors, rigidly preserving predefined formations can become infeasible. Therefore, robot teams must be capable of dynamically splitting into smaller subteams and adaptively controlling the subteams to navigate through such scenarios while preserving formations. To enable this capability, we introduce a novel method for SubTeaming and Adaptive Formation (STAF), which is built upon a unified hierarchical learning framework: (1) high-level deep graph cut for team splitting, (2) intermediate-level graph learning for facilitating coordinated navigation among subteams, and (3) low-level policy learning for controlling individual mobile robots to reach their goal positions while avoiding collisions. To evaluate STAF, we conducted extensive experiments in both indoor and outdoor environments using robotics simulations and physical robot teams. Experimental results show that STAF enables the novel capability for subteaming and adaptive formation control, and achieves promising performance in coordinated multi-robot navigation through challenging scenarios. More details are available on the project website: https://hcrlab.gitlab.io/project/STAF.
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