双专家模型提升无人机着陆视觉鲁棒性,应对远近尺度变化挑战。
Expert Switching for Robust AAV Landing: A Dual-Detector Framework in Simulation
- 分远近两阶段,用两个专精不同尺度的YOLOv8模型并行检测
- 在仿真中实现93.2%着陆成功率,比单模型提升17.6个百分点
- 适合做高可靠性无人机自主降落系统的研究与工程落地
可靠的停机坪检测对自主飞行器(AAV)着陆至关重要,尤其在无GPS或视觉条件恶劣时。尽管现代检测器如YOLOv8具备良好基础性能,但单一模型在下降过程中因目标尺度剧烈变化(高空小、近地大)而难以保持鲁棒性。为此,本文提出一种尺度自适应的双专家感知框架,将检测任务分解为远距离和近距离两种场景。两个基于专用化HelipadCat数据集训练的YOLOv8专家分别擅长检测小尺寸低分辨率停机坪与高精度定位大目标。推理时两者并行运行,通过几何门控机制选择与当前飞行视角最一致的专家输出。该自适应路由有效避免了单模型在宽高度范围内性能下降的问题。系统在融合CARLA光影渲染与NASA GUAM飞行动力学引擎的闭环着陆环境中验证,相比单模型基线,在对齐稳定性、着陆精度和整体鲁棒性上均有显著提升,成功实现93.2%的着陆成功率,优于基线17.6个百分点。本工作为未来多专家无人机自主降落框架提供了可扩展范式。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Reliable helipad detection is essential for Autonomous Aerial Vehicle (AAV) landing, especially under GPS-denied or visually degraded conditions. While modern detectors such as YOLOv8 offer strong baseline performance, single-model pipelines struggle to remain robust across the extreme scale transitions that occur during descent, where helipads appear small at high altitude and large near touchdown. To address this limitation, we propose a scale-adaptive dual-expert perception framework that decomposes the detection task into far-range and close-range regimes. Two YOLOv8 experts are trained on scale-specialized versions of the HelipadCat dataset, enabling one model to excel at detecting small, low-resolution helipads and the other to provide high-precision localization when the target dominates the field of view. During inference, both experts operate in parallel, and a geometric gating mechanism selects the expert whose prediction is most consistent with the AAV's viewpoint. This adaptive routing prevents the degradation commonly observed in single-detector systems when operating across wide altitude ranges. The dual-expert perception module is evaluated in a closed-loop landing environment that integrates CARLA's photorealistic rendering with NASA's GUAM flight-dynamics engine. Results show substantial improvements in alignment stability, landing accuracy, and overall robustness compared to single-detector baselines. By introducing a scale-aware expert routing strategy tailored to the landing problem, this work advances resilient vision-based perception for autonomous descent and provides a foundation for future multi-expert AAV frameworks.
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