用手机机器人上的超宽带雷达实现无基础设施的环境地图构建。
Integration of UWB Radar on Mobile Robots for Continuous Obstacle and Environment Mapping
- 通过雷达回波峰值识别障碍物,结合信号质量与到达角过滤噪声。
- 在混凝土等低反射材料上仍保持73.42%精度、83.38%召回率。
- 无需固定信标节点,适合黑暗或烟雾环境下的机器人导航。
本文提出一种无需基础设施的移动机器人障碍物检测与环境建图方法,利用安装在机器人上的超宽带(UWB)雷达,在视觉受限环境下(如黑暗、烟雾或高反射表面)实现可靠感知。研究分析了金属、混凝土和胶合板等不同材料及5/9频段对信道冲击响应(CIR)的影响,并设计三步处理流程:1)基于CIR峰值检测目标;2)依据峰值特性、信噪比与到达相位差进行过滤;3)基于距离与到达角估计完成聚类。该方法有效抑制噪声与多路径效应,在通道9下对混凝土等低反射场景仍实现73.42%精度与83.38%召回率。本工作为不依赖视觉特征且无需固定锚节点的UWB定位与建图(SLAM)系统奠定基础。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
This paper presents an infrastructure-free approach for obstacle detection and environmental mapping using ultra-wideband (UWB) radar mounted on a mobile robotic platform. Traditional sensing modalities such as visual cameras and Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) fail in environments with poor visibility due to darkness, smoke, or reflective surfaces. In these vision-impaired conditions, UWB radar offers a promising alternative. To this end, this work explores the suitability of robot-mounted UWB radar for environmental mapping in anchor-free, unknown scenarios. The study investigates how different materials (metal, concrete and plywood) and UWB radio channels (5 and 9) influence the Channel Impulse Response (CIR). Furthermore, a processing pipeline is proposed to achieve reliable mapping of detected obstacles, consisting of 3 steps: 1) target identification (based on CIR peak detection); 2) filtering (based on peak properties, signal-to-noise score, and phase-difference of arrival); and 3) clustering (based on distance estimation and angle-of-arrival estimation). The proposed approach successfully reduces noise and multipath effects, achieving high obstacle detection performance across a range of materials. Even in challenging low-reflectivity scenarios such as concrete, the method achieves a precision of 73.42% and a recall of 83.38% on channel 9. This work offers a foundation for further development of UWB-based localisation and mapping (SLAM) systems that do not rely on visual features and, unlike conventional UWB localisation systems, do not require fixed anchor nodes for triangulation.
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