让无人机在高速飞行时兼顾视觉感知质量,提升导航可靠性。
Perception-Aware Time-Optimal Planning for Quadrotor Waypoint Flight
- 融合动力学与视觉约束的最优时间轨迹规划方法
- 实测飞行速度达9.8米/秒,追踪误差仅0.07米
- 适合追求高速自主飞行的机器人研究者
敏捷四旋翼飞行对控制、执行和机载感知提出了极限挑战。尽管时间最优轨迹规划已广泛研究,但现有方法通常忽略车辆动力学、环境几何与机载状态估计视觉需求之间的紧密耦合。结果导致动态可行的轨迹在闭环执行中因视觉质量下降而失败。本文提出一种统一的时间最优轨迹优化框架,显式集成感知约束、非线性动力学、旋翼执行限制、空气动力学效应、相机视场约束及凸几何门形表示。该方法可求解任意赛道上多样门形与朝向的最小时间环路轨迹,且数值稳定、计算高效。我们推导出基于信息论的位置不确定性度量,量化视觉状态估计质量,并通过位置不确定性最小化、序列视场约束和前瞻对齐三个感知目标融入规划器,实现速度与感知可靠性的系统权衡。为精确跟踪所得感知感知轨迹,设计了分离横向与进度误差的模型预测轮廓跟踪控制器。实验表明,真实飞行速度最高达9.8米/秒,平均追踪误差0.07米,封闭回路成功率从55%提升至100%。该系统为研究感知感知、时间最优自主飞行的基本极限提供了可扩展基准。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Agile quadrotor flight pushes the limits of control, actuation, and onboard perception. While time-optimal trajectory planning has been extensively studied, existing approaches typically neglect the tight coupling between vehicle dynamics, environmental geometry, and the visual requirements of onboard state estimation. As a result, trajectories that are dynamically feasible may fail in closed-loop execution due to degraded visual quality. This paper introduces a unified time-optimal trajectory optimization framework for vision-based quadrotors that explicitly incorporates perception constraints alongside full nonlinear dynamics, rotor actuation limits, aerodynamic effects, camera field-of-view constraints, and convex geometric gate representations. The proposed formulation solves minimum-time lap trajectories for arbitrary racetracks with diverse gate shapes and orientations, while remaining numerically robust and computationally efficient. We derive an information-theoretic position uncertainty metric to quantify visual state-estimation quality and integrate it into the planner through three perception objectives: position uncertainty minimization, sequential field-of-view constraints, and look-ahead alignment. This enables systematic exploration of the trade-offs between speed and perceptual reliability. To accurately track the resulting perception-aware trajectories, we develop a model predictive contouring tracking controller that separates lateral and progress errors. Experiments demonstrate real-world flight speeds up to 9.8 m/s with 0.07 m average tracking error, and closed-loop success rates improved from 55% to 100% on a challenging Split-S course. The proposed system provides a scalable benchmark for studying the fundamental limits of perception-aware, time-optimal autonomous flight.
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