让机器人编队动态调整形状,更精准地降低保护与避障成本。
Solving the Right Problem with Multi-Robot Formations
- 用代理代价函数逼近复杂成本,分两步优化机器人的相对位置。
- 仿真中单目标成本降低超75%,多目标时降幅达20%-40%。
- 适合军事场景下的编队保护与避障,对非光滑成本有效。
编队控制通过将代价函数编码为固定几何形状来简化多机器人系统优化,但静态形状与原始代价函数之间常存在偏差。例如,菱形或方形编队虽能保护所有成员,但在环境信息变化后无法继续最小化保护代价。本文提出一种两阶段编队规划方法:首先通过加权代理代价函数近似非线性、不可微的原始代价;理论分析表明某些情况下权重无需更新;随后在机器人相对位置空间中最小化该代理函数,并利用基于李雅普诺夫直接法的非合作控制器实现期望构型。实验验证了该方法在军事类代价(如保护、避障)上的有效性:单一代价可降低超过75%;同时优化多种代价时,自适应权重方案使总代价下降20%-40%。相比依赖形状抽象的传统方法,本方案通过逼近真实代价函数显著提升性能。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Formation control simplifies minimizing multi-robot cost functions by encoding a cost function as a shape the robots maintain. However, by reducing complex cost functions to formations, discrepancies arise between maintaining the shape and minimizing the original cost function. For example, a Diamond or Box formation shape is often used for protecting all members of the formation. When more information about the surrounding environment becomes available, a static shape often no longer minimizes the original protection cost. We propose a formation planner to reduce mismatch between a formation and the cost function while still leveraging efficient formation controllers. Our formation planner is a two-step optimization problem that identifies desired relative robot positions. We first solve a constrained problem to estimate non-linear and non-differentiable costs with a weighted sum of surrogate cost functions. We theoretically analyze this problem and identify situations where weights do not need to be updated. The weighted, surrogate cost function is then minimized using relative positions between robots. The desired relative positions are realized using a non-cooperative formation controller derived from Lyapunov's direct approach. We then demonstrate the efficacy of this approach for military-like costs such as protection and obstacle avoidance. In simulations, we show a formation planner can reduce a single cost by over 75%. When minimizing a variety of cost functions simultaneously, using a formation planner with adaptive weights can reduce the cost by 20-40%. Formation planning provides better performance by minimizing a surrogate cost function that closely approximates the original cost function instead of relying on a shape abstraction.
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