让多模态机器人智能避障,实时判断地形难易并规划节能路径。
Traversability Aware Autonomous Navigation for Multi-Modal Mobility Morphobot (M4)
- 用激光雷达生成2.5D高程图,结合CNN评估地形可通行性。
- 路径规划在距离稍增下大幅降低地形代价,提升安全性。
- 适合需要复杂地形自主导航的多模态机器人平台。
在非结构化环境中实现自主导航需机器人实时评估地形难度并规划兼顾效率与安全的路径。本论文针对M4机器人平台提出一种可通行性感知的导航框架,利用学习的地形分析生成节能路径以避开困难地形。系统采用FAST-LIO进行实时定位,从激光雷达点云生成2.5D高程图;基于卷积神经网络(CNN)模型处理高程图,估算可通行性评分,并转化为路径规划成本。自定义A*规划器融合该成本、几何距离与能耗,权衡路径长度与地形质量,接受少量路径延长以显著改善地形适应性。在系统开发前,通过OptiTrack真值对比了激光雷达与视觉SLAM方法:通过ICP配准与点云到网格距离分析发现,激光雷达映射达到厘米级精度,满足高程建模需求,而视觉方法存在显著几何误差。据此确定以激光雷达为主传感器生成高程图。完整流程集成FAST-LIO定位、GPU加速高程建模、CNN可通行性估计及带有自定义可通行性感知规划器的Nav2导航系统。实验表明,系统能有效避开低可通行性区域,接受部分更长路径以实现地形成本下降。本工作为多模态机器人平台的智能地形感知导航奠定基础。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Autonomous navigation in unstructured environments requires robots to assess terrain difficulty in real-time and plan paths that balance efficiency with safety. This thesis presents a traversability-aware navigation framework for the M4 robot platform that uses learned terrain analysis to generate energy-efficient paths avoiding difficult terrain.Our approach uses FAST-LIO for real-time localization, generating 2.5D elevation maps from LiDAR point clouds. A CNN-based model processes these elevation maps to estimate traversability scores, which are converted into navigation costs for path planning. A custom A* planner incorporates these costs alongside geometric distance and energy consumption to find paths that trade modest distance increases for substantial terrain quality improvements. Before system development, a platform-agnostic study compared LiDAR-based and camera-based SLAM using OptiTrack ground truth. Point cloud comparison through ICP alignment and cloud-to-mesh distance analysis demonstrated that LiDAR-based mapping achieves centimeter-level precision essential for elevation mapping, while camera-based approaches exhibited significantly higher geometric error. These findings directly resulted in the selection of LiDAR as the primary sensor to generate elevation maps. The complete pipeline integrates FAST-LIO localization, GPU-accelerated elevation mapping, CNN-based traversability estimation, and Nav2 navigation with a custom traversability-aware planner. Experimental results demonstrate that the system successfully avoids low traversability regions and accepts a few longer paths to achieve a reduction in terrain cost. This work establishes a foundation for intelligent terrain-aware navigation applicable to multi-modal robotic platforms.
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