提出标准化实验方案,评估森林中无人机自主飞行性能。
Field evaluation and optimization of a lightweight autonomous lidar-based UAV system based on a rigorous experimental setup in boreal forest environments
- 设计可复现的林下无人机测试流程,包含多轮重复飞行与定量环境描述。
- 优化后系统在中等难度林区实现100%成功率(2米/秒),复杂林区达80%。
- 适合做林区无人机算法对比研究或林业机器人系统开发人员参考。
近年来,利用自主无人机进行林下遥感的兴趣不断增长,已有大量自主飞行算法被发表。然而,由于实验设置差异大、报告不完整,现有方法的可靠比较仍具挑战。本研究提出一种标准化实验方案,用于评估林下自主无人机系统,强调对森林复杂度的量化描述、测试环境的可视化呈现、多次重复飞行执行,以及飞行成功率与定性结果的报告。同时鼓励在多个目标速度下飞行,并报告实际飞行速度、任务完成时间及点对点飞行距离。该方案通过一架轻量级激光雷达四旋翼无人机,在两个天然寒带森林环境中进行了广泛实验验证,采用先进开源算法。基于对原系统的系统性评估,提出多项改进措施。在优化系统上重复相同协议,共完成93次真实飞行。优化后系统在中等难度林区以1米/秒和2米/秒为目标速度分别实现12/15和15/15的成功率;在困难林区分别为12/15和5/15。采用该实验方案有助于推动文献中林下自主飞行系统的对比研究,并支持未来无人机森林机器人解决方案的系统性性能提升。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Interest in utilizing autonomous uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) for under-canopy forest remote sensing has increased in recent years, resulting in the publication of numerous autonomous flight algorithms in the scientific literature. To support the selection and development of such algorithms, a reliable comparison of existing approaches based on published studies is essential. However, reliable comparisons are currently challenging due to widely varying experimental setups and incomplete reporting practices. This study proposes a standardized experimental setup for evaluating autonomous under-canopy UAV systems to fill this gap. The proposed setup emphasizes quantitative reporting of forest complexity, visual representation of test environments, execution of multiple repeated flights, and reporting of flight success rates alongside qualitative flight results. In addition, flights at multiple target speeds are encouraged, with reporting of realized flight speed, mission completion time, and point-to-point flight distance. The proposed setup is demonstrated using a lightweight lidar-based quadrotor employing state-of-the-art open-source algorithms, evaluated through extensive experiments in two natural boreal forest environments. Based on a systematic evaluation of the original system, several improvements were introduced. The same experimental protocol was then repeated with the optimized system, resulting in a total of 93 real-world flights. The optimized system achieved success rates of 12/15 and 15/15 at target flight speeds of 1 m/s and 2 m/s, respectively, in a medium-difficulty forest, and 12/15 and 5/15 in a difficult forest. Adoption of the proposed experimental setup would facilitate the literature-based comparison of autonomous under-canopy flight systems and support systematic performance improvement of future UAV-based forest robotics solutions.
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