用普通挖斗让挖掘机自主挖大石头,适应不同土壤条件。
Towards Learning Boulder Excavation with Hydraulic Excavators
- 用强化学习控制挖斗,仅靠稀疏激光点和感知反馈
- 在硬土中拖拽、软土中下压,成功率70%(人83%)
- 适合工地无人化改造,不需换专用工具
施工前常需清除大块岩石,但传统方法依赖人工操作标准挖斗,避免频繁更换工具。该任务需在尘土飞扬、光照变化大、遮挡多的户外环境中处理几何未知的不规则岩石,同时根据土壤阻力调整动作:硬土时拖行,软土时下压穿透。现有自主挖掘系统要么只针对连续介质,要么依赖专用夹具与精确几何规划,难以应对大岩块或中断作业流程。本文在仿真中训练强化学习策略,结合刚体动力学与解析式土壤模型,仅使用每块岩石20个稀疏激光点与本体感知信号,控制标准挖斗完成抓取。策略自动区分土壤条件并选择相应策略。实地测试在12吨挖掘机上实现对0.4-0.7米岩石在多种土壤下的70%成功率,接近人类操作员的83%表现。证明了标准设备可在感知稀疏、环境恶劣条件下实现复杂操控。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Construction sites frequently require removing large rocks before excavation or grading can proceed. Human operators typically extract these boulders using only standard digging buckets, avoiding time-consuming tool changes to specialized grippers. This task demands manipulating irregular objects with unknown geometries in harsh outdoor environments where dust, variable lighting, and occlusions hinder perception. The excavator must adapt to varying soil resistance--dragging along hard-packed surfaces or penetrating soft ground--while coordinating multiple hydraulic joints to secure rocks using a shovel. Current autonomous excavation focuses on continuous media (soil, gravel) or uses specialized grippers with detailed geometric planning for discrete objects. These approaches either cannot handle large irregular rocks or require impractical tool changes that interrupt workflow. We train a reinforcement learning policy in simulation using rigid-body dynamics and analytical soil models. The policy processes sparse LiDAR points (just 20 per rock) from vision-based segmentation and proprioceptive feedback to control standard excavator buckets. The learned agent discovers different strategies based on soil resistance: dragging along the surface in hard soil and penetrating directly in soft conditions. Field tests on a 12-ton excavator achieved 70% success across varied rocks (0.4-0.7m) and soil types, compared to 83% for human operators. This demonstrates that standard construction equipment can learn complex manipulation despite sparse perception and challenging outdoor conditions.
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