arXiv:2510.20955cs.LGcs.RO2025-10

用模拟器替代人工安全标注,让机器人自动判断动作是否安全。

Approximating Safety Feedback Without a Safety Oracle via Model Predictive Control

  • 通过模型预测路径积分算法,利用可逆性判断动作安全性。
  • 实验显示该方法逼近了真实安全检测器的性能。
  • 适合在无法获取精确安全标签的复杂环境中使用。

移动机器人安全决策算法通常依赖反馈来验证动作的安全性。这种反馈常以显式约束或人工标注的安全数据形式存在,但往往不准确或耗时。许多新兴模拟器能处理复杂交互和多样化环境,其隐含的安全约束难以建模。本文提出一种方法,利用模拟器构建安全函数的代理,避免人工设计反馈。基于不可逆性与不安全状态空间的正不变性假设,该方法采用模型预测路径积分算法(MPPI)验证动作:先将动作投影至未来状态,若MPPI能返回轨迹中此前状态,则表明该状态不在不安全集内。实验表明,该算法在避免将危险状态误判为安全的同时,逼近了安全检测器的性能。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Safe decision-making algorithms for control of mobile robots often require the existence of feedback to verify the safety of proposed actions. This feedback is assumed to be directly available during the development or deployment of the control system. It can take the form of either an explicit constraint formulation or a set of hand-labeled safety data, both of which can be inaccurate or time consuming to produce. Many recently developed simulators can handle complex interactions and varied environments. These environments have implicit safety constraints that may be hard to model. By leveraging one of these simulators, we can construct a proxy for a safety function that bypasses the need for hand designed feedback in capturing these constraints. We present an algorithm that approximates safety by using reversibility and a positive-invariance assumption on the unsafe state space. This method employs the Model-Predictive Path Integral algorithm (MPPI) to establish this reversibility and verify a proposed action. First the action is projected via the simulator to a future state. Then if MPPI can find a path back to a previous state in the trajectory, that state is guaranteed to be outside the unsafe (positive invariant) set. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm can approximate the performance of a safety oracle while avoiding classification of unsafe states as safe.

机器人控制安全评估模拟器MPPI

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