提出安全探索框架,让无人机在不确定中主动学习而不冒险。
A Formal gatekeeper Framework for Safe Dual Control with Active Exploration
- 用门卫架构验证安全,只在确保安全时才允许探索
- 仿真验证下四旋翼在参数不确定性中既降风险又优化任务成本
- 适合需要实时安全决策的自主系统研究者
在模型不确定性下规划安全轨迹是基础挑战。鲁棒规划通过考虑最坏情况保障安全,但忽略不确定性降低,导致过度保守。主动在任务中实时减少不确定性构成双重控制问题。现有方法多通过加权探索项平衡目标与不确定性降低,却未形式化判断探索何时有益,且部分方法未严格保证安全。本文提出一个集成鲁棒规划与主动探索的框架,核心创新在于:仅当探索能带来可验证的性能提升且不损害安全时才执行。为此,我们基于先前的门卫(gatekeeper)架构,扩展其功能以生成既安全又具信息性的轨迹,实现不确定性降低和任务成本下降,或保持在用户定义预算内。该方法通过四旋翼在线双重控制的仿真案例进行评估。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Planning safe trajectories under model uncertainty is a fundamental challenge. Robust planning ensures safety by considering worst-case realizations, yet ignores uncertainty reduction and leads to overly conservative behavior. Actively reducing uncertainty on-the-fly during a nominal mission defines the dual control problem. Most approaches address this by adding a weighted exploration term to the cost, tuned to trade off the nominal objective and uncertainty reduction, but without formal consideration of when exploration is beneficial. Moreover, safety is enforced in some methods but not in others. We propose a framework that integrates robust planning with active exploration under formal guarantees as follows: The key innovation and contribution is that exploration is pursued only when it provides a verifiable improvement without compromising safety. To achieve this, we utilize our earlier work on gatekeeper as an architecture for safety verification, and extend it so that it generates both safe and informative trajectories that reduce uncertainty and the cost of the mission, or keep it within a user-defined budget. The methodology is evaluated via simulation case studies on the online dual control of a quadrotor under parametric uncertainty.
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