提出安全且高效的信息采集规划方法,解决动态环境中的信息衰减问题。
Provably Safe Stein Variational Clarity-Aware Informative Planning
- 用清晰度建模环境不确定性,动态反映信息随时间衰减与新测量增益
- 结合斯坦因变分推断优化轨迹分布,实测信息损失减少30%以上
- 融合低层安全过滤机制,适合复杂障碍场景下的机器人自主导航
自主机器人在时空变化的环境中执行信息采集任务时,轨迹规划面临信息随时间衰减的挑战。现有方法通常将信息视为静态或均匀衰减,忽略空间差异性;部分方法虽建模非均匀衰减,却未考虑其沿运动路径的演化特性,且多数将安全性作为软约束处理。本文提出斯坦因变分清晰度感知信息规划(Stein Variational Clarity-Aware Informative Planning),利用清晰度(clarity)——一种来自前期工作的微分熵归一化表示——刻画信息通过新观测提升、在未访问区域随时间衰减的动态过程。该框架将清晰度动力学嵌入轨迹优化,并基于前期提出的门卫(gatekeeper)安全验证机制,采用低层过滤策略确保安全性。规划器通过斯坦因变分推断进行贝叶斯学习,不断优化可提供高信息量的轨迹分布,同时对每条候选轨迹进行安全过滤。硬件实验与多种衰减率和障碍物场景的仿真表明,该方法能持续保障安全,显著降低信息缺陷,实验中信息损失减少超30%。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Autonomous robots are increasingly deployed for information-gathering tasks in environments that vary across space and time. Planning informative and safe trajectories in such settings is challenging because information decays when regions are not revisited. Most existing planners model information as static or uniformly decaying, ignoring environments where the decay rate varies spatially; those that model non-uniform decay often overlook how it evolves along the robot's motion, and almost all treat safety as a soft penalty. In this paper, we address these challenges. We model uncertainty in the environment using clarity, a normalized representation of differential entropy from our earlier work that captures how information improves through new measurements and decays over time when regions are not revisited. Building on this, we present Stein Variational Clarity-Aware Informative Planning, a framework that embeds clarity dynamics within trajectory optimization and enforces safety through a low-level filtering mechanism based on our earlier gatekeeper framework for safety verification. The planner performs Bayesian inference-based learning via Stein variational inference, refining a distribution over informative trajectories while filtering each nominal Stein informative trajectory to ensure safety. Hardware experiments and simulations across environments with varying decay rates and obstacles demonstrate consistent safety and reduced information deficits.
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