多智能体探月任务中,用高斯信念与双域覆盖提升稀疏证据发现效率。
Multi-Agent Off-World Exploration for Sparse Evidence Discovery via Gaussian Belief Mapping and Dual-Domain Coverage
- 基于高斯过程建模兴趣与风险信念,融合轨迹意图实现协同决策
- 在有限通信下仍保持低不确定性,优于采样与贪婪基线方法
- 适合复杂火星/月球环境下的安全高效多机探测,抗区域偏见
地外多机器人探索面临目标稀疏、感知受限、地形危险及通信受限等挑战。许多科学线索视觉模糊,需近距离观测,因此高效安全的信息路径规划至关重要。现有方法常依赖预设兴趣区(AOI),可能不完整或有偏差,且通常仅以软惩罚处理地形风险,难以避免不可逆区域。为此,我们提出一种基于高斯信念映射与双域覆盖的多智能体信息路径规划框架。该方法维护基于高斯过程的兴趣与风险信念,并结合轨迹意图表示,支持多智能体间的协调序列决策。它优先在AOI内搜索,同时保留有限外部探索,增强对AOI偏见的鲁棒性;风险感知设计使智能体在信息增益与操作安全间取得平衡。模拟月球环境实验表明,该方法在不同预算和通信范围下均持续优于采样基线与贪婪基线,在风险感知设置下实现更低最终不确定性,且在通信受限时仍具鲁棒性,验证了其在协作地外机器人探索中的有效性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Off-world multi-robot exploration is challenged by sparse targets, limited sensing, hazardous terrain, and restricted communication. Many scientifically valuable clues are visually ambiguous and often require close-range observations, making efficient and safe informative path planning essential. Existing methods often rely on predefined areas of interest (AOIs), which may be incomplete or biased, and typically handle terrain risk only through soft penalties, which are insufficient for avoiding non-recoverable regions. To address these issues, we propose a multi-agent informative path planning framework for sparse evidence discovery based on Gaussian belief mapping and dual-domain coverage. The method maintains Gaussian-process-based interest and risk beliefs and combines them with trajectory-intent representations to support coordinated sequential decision-making among multiple agents. It further prioritizes search inside the AOI while preserving limited exploration outside it, thereby improving robustness to AOI bias. In addition, the risk-aware design helps agents balance information gain and operational safety in hazardous environments. Experimental results in simulated lunar environments show that the proposed method consistently outperforms sampling-based and greedy baselines under different budgets and communication ranges. In particular, it achieves lower final uncertainty in risk-aware settings and remains robust under limited communication, demonstrating its effectiveness for cooperative off-world robotic exploration.
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