用高性能计算实现机器人毫秒级避障,突破实时控制瓶颈
Supercomputing for High-speed Avoidance and Reactive Planning in Robots
- 将轨迹规划任务通过MPI分布式到本地/远程超算,实现毫秒级响应
- 远程计算平均延迟30.0毫秒,避障成功率88%,优于人类反应速度
- 适合需要高速动态避障的工业协作机器人场景
本文提出SHARP(Supercomputing for High-speed Avoidance and Reactive Planning),验证高性能计算(HPC)在机器人控制中实现毫秒级响应的可行性。面对人机共存工作空间中日益增长的反应需求,机载处理器受限于尺寸、功耗和成本。将任务卸载至HPC可提供大规模并行能力,但网络延迟与抖动使其在实时机器人中的应用仍不确定。我们在压力测试场景中评估了7-DOF机械臂对高速泡沫弹的避障表现。采用基于哈希分布的多目标A*搜索,通过MPI在本地和远程HPC集群上实现,系统在本地和远程环境下分别达到22.9毫秒和30.0毫秒的平均规划延迟,避障成功率分别为84%和88%。结果表明,当往返延迟保持在数十毫秒量级时,HPC计算不再成为瓶颈,可实现远低于人类反应时间的避障。研究支持混合控制架构:低层反射仍由机载系统处理以保障安全,而高吞吐量的突发性规划任务则卸载至HPC以实现可扩展性。通过报告各阶段耗时与成功率,本研究为评估HPC驱动机器人的实时可行性提供了可复现模板。总体而言,SHARP将HPC卸载重新定义为构建动态环境中可靠、敏捷机器人的可行路径。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
This paper presents SHARP (Supercomputing for High-speed Avoidance and Reactive Planning), a proof-of-concept study demonstrating how high-performance computing (HPC) can enable millisecond-scale responsiveness in robotic control. While modern robots face increasing demands for reactivity in human-robot shared workspaces, onboard processors are constrained by size, power, and cost. Offloading to HPC offers massive parallelism for trajectory planning, but its feasibility for real-time robotics remains uncertain due to network latency and jitter. We evaluate SHARP in a stress-test scenario where a 7-DOF manipulator must dodge high-speed foam projectiles. Using a hash-distributed multi-goal A* search implemented with MPI on both local and remote HPC clusters, the system achieves mean planning latencies of 22.9 ms (local) and 30.0 ms (remote, ~300 km away), with avoidance success rates of 84% and 88%, respectively. These results show that when round-trip latency remains within the tens-of-milliseconds regime, HPC-side computation is no longer the bottleneck, enabling avoidance well below human reaction times. The SHARP results motivate hybrid control architectures: low-level reflexes remain onboard for safety, while bursty, high-throughput planning tasks are offloaded to HPC for scalability. By reporting per-stage timing and success rates, this study provides a reproducible template for assessing real-time feasibility of HPC-driven robotics. Collectively, SHARP reframes HPC offloading as a viable pathway toward dependable, reactive robots in dynamic environments.
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