无需检测追踪,单激光雷达实现动态障碍避让飞行
Flow-Aided Flight Through Dynamic Clutters From Point To Motion
- 用点云生成固定形状低分辨率深度图+帧间点流感知运动
- 在模拟器中训练的策略可直接驱动真实无人机安全飞行
- 免去目标追踪,适合资源受限的实时自主飞行系统
动态障碍物穿越的挑战主要在于高效感知环境动态与生成考虑障碍运动的规避行为。以往方法虽显式建模障碍运动以实现避障,但在存在遮挡的高动态场景中决策依赖耗时且不可靠。本文不引入目标检测、追踪与预测,仅通过单激光雷达感知,实现从点到动作的自主飞行系统。外感受方面,从原始点云编码出固定形状、低分辨率且保留细节的深度距离图,并采用多帧观测提取的环境变化点流作为运动特征,二者融合为轻量级、易学习的复杂动态环境表征。行为生成方面,提出的变差感知表征隐式驱动提前规避动态威胁,策略优化由相对运动调制的距离场引导。结合部署友好的传感仿真与无动力学模型的加速控制,该系统相比基线表现更优,且模拟器训练的策略可成功驱动真实四旋翼无人机完成安全飞行。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Challenges in traversing dynamic clutters lie mainly in the efficient perception of the environmental dynamics and the generation of evasive behaviors considering obstacle movement. Previous solutions have made progress in explicitly modeling the dynamic obstacle motion for avoidance, but this key dependency of decision-making is time-consuming and unreliable in highly dynamic scenarios with occlusions. On the contrary, without introducing object detection, tracking, and prediction, we empower the reinforcement learning (RL) with single LiDAR sensing to realize an autonomous flight system directly from point to motion. For exteroception, a depth sensing distance map achieving fixed-shape, low-resolution, and detail-safe is encoded from raw point clouds, and an environment change sensing point flow is adopted as motion features extracted from multi-frame observations. These two are integrated into a lightweight and easy-to-learn representation of complex dynamic environments. For action generation, the behavior of avoiding dynamic threats in advance is implicitly driven by the proposed change-aware sensing representation, where the policy optimization is indicated by the relative motion modulated distance field. With the deployment-friendly sensing simulation and dynamics model-free acceleration control, the proposed system shows a superior success rate and adaptability to alternatives, and the policy derived from the simulator can drive a real-world quadrotor with safe maneuvers.
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