让机器人在复杂环境中安全导航,通过分层优化避免碰撞。
SaferPath: Hierarchical Visual Navigation with Learned Guidance and Safety-Constrained Control
- 用预训练模型提供引导,再通过安全约束优化轨迹。
- 仅几轮迭代即可生成避障路径,成功率达90%以上。
- 适合需高安全性导航的机器人应用,如家庭服务、仓储巡检。
视觉导航是移动机器人的核心能力,但端到端学习方法在未见、杂乱或狭窄环境中常面临泛化差与安全隐患。尤其在密集室内场景中,碰撞风险高,现有端到端模型易失效。为此,我们提出SaferPath,一种分层视觉导航框架:利用已有端到端模型提供引导,并通过安全约束优化控制模块进行修正。SaferPath将视觉观测转化为可通行区域地图,采用模型预测斯坦因变分进化策略(MP-SVES)在数次迭代内高效生成安全路径。优化后的路径由MPC控制器跟踪,确保在复杂环境中的鲁棒性。在含未见障碍物、密集非结构空间及狭窄通道的场景下,实验表明SaferPath持续提升成功率并减少碰撞,优于ViNT和NoMaD等代表性基线,在真实复杂场景中实现安全导航。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Visual navigation is a core capability for mobile robots, yet end-to-end learning-based methods often struggle with generalization and safety in unseen, cluttered, or narrow environments. These limitations are especially pronounced in dense indoor settings, where collisions are likely and end-to-end models frequently fail. To address this, we propose SaferPath, a hierarchical visual navigation framework that leverages learned guidance from existing end-to-end models and refines it through a safety-constrained optimization-control module. SaferPath transforms visual observations into a traversable-area map and refines guidance trajectories using Model Predictive Stein Variational Evolution Strategy (MP-SVES), efficiently generating safe trajectories in only a few iterations. The refined trajectories are tracked by an MPC controller, ensuring robust navigation in complex environments. Extensive experiments in scenarios with unseen obstacles, dense unstructured spaces, and narrow corridors demonstrate that SaferPath consistently improves success rates and reduces collisions, outperforming representative baselines such as ViNT and NoMaD, and enabling safe navigation in challenging real-world settings.
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