arXiv:2512.01280cs.RO2025-12被引 1

多无人机协同追踪目标,能实时避障并保持多角度视野。

Visibility-Aware Cooperative Tracking with Decentralized LiDAR-Based Aerial Swarms

  • 用球面符号距离场建模遮挡,支持机载实时更新。
  • 实现复杂环境下的多机协同追踪,目标可见性显著提升。
  • 适合需要高鲁棒性与多视角覆盖的巡检、安防场景。

自主飞行无人机在监控、影视拍摄和工业巡检中潜力巨大。尽管单机追踪系统已广泛研究,基于集群的追踪仍较少探索,尽管其具备分布式感知、容错冗余和多方向覆盖等优势。为此,我们提出一种新型去中心化的激光雷达集群追踪框架,可在复杂环境中实现可视性感知的协同目标追踪,充分挖掘集群系统的独特能力。为解决遮挡问题,引入基于球面符号距离场(SSDF)的三维环境遮挡表示方法,并设计高效算法实现实时机载更新。提出通用视场(FOV)对齐代价,支持异构激光雷达配置以保证一致观测。通过协作代价增强集群协调,确保机间安全距离、避免相互遮挡,并借助受静电势启发的分布度量,实现3D多向目标包围。上述创新集成于分层规划器中,结合运动学动态前端搜索与时空SE(3)后端优化,生成无碰撞、可视性最优的轨迹。在异构激光雷达集群上部署的全去中心化系统,具备协同感知、分布式规划与动态重组能力。在复杂室外环境中进行严格真实实验验证,系统表现出对敏捷目标(无人机、人)的鲁棒协同追踪能力,并实现了更优的可视性维持效果。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Autonomous aerial tracking with drones offers vast potential for surveillance, cinematography, and industrial inspection applications. While single-drone tracking systems have been extensively studied, swarm-based target tracking remains underexplored, despite its unique advantages of distributed perception, fault-tolerant redundancy, and multidirectional target coverage. To bridge this gap, we propose a novel decentralized LiDAR-based swarm tracking framework that enables visibility-aware, cooperative target tracking in complex environments, while fully harnessing the unique capabilities of swarm systems. To address visibility, we introduce a novel Spherical Signed Distance Field (SSDF)-based metric for 3-D environmental occlusion representation, coupled with an efficient algorithm that enables real-time onboard SSDF updating. A general Field-of-View (FOV) alignment cost supporting heterogeneous LiDAR configurations is proposed for consistent target observation. Swarm coordination is enhanced through cooperative costs that enforce inter-robot safe clearance, prevent mutual occlusions, and notably facilitate 3-D multidirectional target encirclement via a novel electrostatic-potential-inspired distribution metric. These innovations are integrated into a hierarchical planner, combining a kinodynamic front-end searcher with a spatiotemporal $SE(3)$ back-end optimizer to generate collision-free, visibility-optimized trajectories.Deployed on heterogeneous LiDAR swarms, our fully decentralized implementation features collaborative perception, distributed planning, and dynamic swarm reconfigurability. Validated through rigorous real-world experiments in cluttered outdoor environments, the proposed system demonstrates robust cooperative tracking of agile targets (drones, humans) while achieving superior visibility maintenance.

无人机集群激光雷达协同追踪多视角

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