四足机器人在复杂环境中实现高速避障与稳定前进的统一
UEREBot: Learning Safe Quadrupedal Locomotion under Unstructured Environments and High-Speed Dynamic Obstacles
- 分层架构分离慢速规划与即时避障,协同执行
- 仿真与真实机器人测试中避障成功率更高、运动更稳定
- 适合需要高安全性与目标推进的野外机器人应用
四足机器人在非结构化环境中的安全运动需兼顾长期目标推进、复杂地形通行和对高速动态障碍物的避让。单一系统难以同时满足三者:基于规划的方法响应慢,纯反应式方法牺牲目标进展与通行能力。为此,我们提出UEREBot(Unstructured-Environment Reflexive Evasion Robot),一种分层框架,将慢速规划与即时反射避障分离,并在执行中协调。UEREBot将任务建模为带约束的最优控制问题,采用时空规划器提供目标引导与威胁信号,通过威胁感知切换融合导航与反射动作生成标准指令,并以控制屏障函数作为最终执行保障。我们在Isaac Lab仿真中评估并部署于配备机载感知的Unitree Go2机器人。在包含复杂静态结构和高速动态障碍的多样化环境中,UEREBot相较于代表性基线展现出更高的避障成功率、更稳定的运动表现,同时保持目标推进能力,验证了其在安全与进展间更优的权衡。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Quadruped robots are increasingly deployed in unstructured environments. Safe locomotion in these settings requires long-horizon goal progress, passability over uneven terrain and static constraints, and collision avoidance against high-speed dynamic obstacles. A single system cannot fully satisfy all three objectives simultaneously: planning-based decisions can be too slow, while purely reactive decisions can sacrifice goal progress and passability. To resolve this conflict, we propose UEREBot (Unstructured-Environment Reflexive Evasion Robot), a hierarchical framework that separates slow planning from instantaneous reflexive evasion and coordinates them during execution. UEREBot formulates the task as a constrained optimal control problem blueprint. It adopts a spatial--temporal planner that provides reference guidance toward the goal and threat signals. It then uses a threat-aware handoff to fuse navigation and reflex actions into a nominal command, and a control barrier function shield as a final execution safeguard. We evaluate UEREBot in Isaac Lab simulation and deploy it on a Unitree Go2 quadruped equipped with onboard perception. Across diverse environments with complex static structure and high-speed dynamic obstacles, UEREBot achieves higher avoidance success and more stable locomotion while maintaining goal progress than representative baselines, demonstrating improved safety--progress trade-offs.
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