arXiv:2603.13888cs.RO2026-03

用强化学习让局部导航更智能,能自动适应不靠谱的全局路径。

Path-conditioned Reinforcement Learning-based Local Planning for Long-Range Navigation

  • 让局部规划器通过强化学习理解全局路径信息,作为参考指导。
  • 在高质量路径下效率显著提升,路径失效时仍保持基础表现。
  • 适合高不确定性环境下的长距离导航,尤其对近似规划很友好。

长距离导航通常采用分层架构:全局规划器生成路径并分解为航点,由局部规划器逐个执行。这类系统对全局路径质量敏感,若远端感知数据不准,会导致局部不可行航点,影响执行效果;同时,局部规划器可用的全局上下文有限,影响长期效率。为此,本文提出一种基于强化学习的局部导航策略,将参考路径信息作为上下文引导。该策略以路径观测为条件,训练时主要依赖到达目标的奖励,不显式使用路径跟随奖励。通过这种隐式条件设计,策略既能灵活利用路径信息,又对误导性或退化的引导保持鲁棒性。实验表明,当路径质量良好时,导航效率显著提高;当路径观测严重退化甚至缺失时,性能仍维持基线水平。这一特性使方法特别适用于高阶规划近似、局部执行需适应不确定性的长距离导航场景。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Long-range navigation is commonly addressed through hierarchical pipelines in which a global planner generates a path, decomposed into waypoints, and followed sequentially by a local planner. These systems are sensitive to global path quality, as inaccurate remote sensing data can result in locally infeasible waypoints, which degrade local execution. At the same time, the limited global context available to the local planner hinders long-range efficiency. To address this issue, we propose a reinforcement learning-based local navigation policy that leverages path information as contextual guidance. The policy is conditioned on reference path observations and trained with a reward function mainly based on goal-reaching objectives, without any explicit path-following reward. Through this implicit conditioning, the policy learns to opportunistically exploit path information while remaining robust to misleading or degraded guidance. Experimental results show that the proposed approach significantly improves navigation efficiency when high-quality paths are available and maintains baseline-level performance when path observations are severely degraded or even non-existent. These properties make the method particularly well-suited for long-range navigation scenarios in which high-level plans are approximate and local execution must remain adaptive to uncertainty.

强化学习路径规划自动驾驶

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