arXiv:2512.12194cs.RO2025-12

提出可扩展的不确定性感知主动探索框架,实现定位与建图协同决策。

B-ActiveSEAL: Scalable Uncertainty-Aware Active Exploration with Tightly Coupled Localization-Mapping

  • 基于信息论构建动态平衡探索与利用的决策机制
  • 在多种环境实验中实现更优的探索-利用权衡与多样化行为
  • 适用于大规模复杂场景,适合机器人自主导航研究者

主动机器人探索需在紧密耦合的不确定性下进行定位与建图决策。然而,在大规模环境中长期运行时,处理这些相互依赖的不确定性迅速变得计算不可行。为此,我们提出B-ActiveSEAL,一种可扩展的信息论主动探索框架,将感知到的建图过程中的耦合不确定性明确纳入决策流程。该框架(i)自适应平衡地图不确定性(探索)与定位不确定性(利用);(ii)支持广义熵度量,实现灵活且不确定性感知的主动探索;(iii)确立行为熵(BE)作为有效信息度量,使在耦合不确定性下实现直观且自适应的决策成为可能。我们建立了耦合不确定性传播与一般熵形式融合的理论基础,实现了紧密耦合定位-建图下的不确定性感知主动探索。通过开源地图与ROS-Unity仿真在多样复杂环境中的严格理论分析和大量实验验证,结果表明B-ActiveSEAL实现了良好的探索-利用平衡,并生成多样化、自适应的探索行为,显著优于代表性基线方法。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Active robot exploration requires decision-making processes that integrate localization and mapping under tightly coupled uncertainty. However, managing these interdependent uncertainties over long-term operations in large-scale environments rapidly becomes computationally intractable. To address this challenge, we propose B-ActiveSEAL, a scalable information-theoretic active exploration framework that explicitly accounts for coupled uncertainties-from perception through mapping-into the decision-making process. Our framework (i) adaptively balances map uncertainty (exploration) and localization uncertainty (exploitation), (ii) accommodates a broad class of generalized entropy measures, enabling flexible and uncertainty-aware active exploration, and (iii) establishes Behavioral entropy (BE) as an effective information measure for active exploration by enabling intuitive and adaptive decision-making under coupled uncertainties. We establish a theoretical foundation for propagating coupled uncertainties and integrating them into general entropy formulations, enabling uncertainty-aware active exploration under tightly coupled localization-mapping. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is validated through rigorous theoretical analysis and extensive experiments on open-source maps and ROS-Unity simulations across diverse and complex environments. The results demonstrate that B-ActiveSEAL achieves a well-balanced exploration-exploitation trade-off and produces diverse, adaptive exploration behaviors across environments, highlighting clear advantages over representative baselines.

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