让无人机探索时省电,同时不耽误地图构建速度。
EAAE: Energy-Aware Autonomous Exploration for UAVs in Unknown 3D Environments
- 按能量消耗优化前沿选择,动态规划低能耗路径。
- 在复杂环境中能耗降低30%以上,地图质量与时间表现稳定。
- 适合需要长续航的无人机自主探索任务。
电池供电的多旋翼无人机可快速测绘未知环境,但任务性能常受限于能量而非几何结构。传统以覆盖率或时间为目标的探索策略可能因高能耗机动而浪费电力。本文提出能量感知自主探索(EAAE),一种模块化的基于前沿的框架,将能量作为前沿选择中的显式决策变量。EAAE将前沿聚类为视图一致区域,动态规划至信息量最高的簇的可行候选轨迹,并通过离线功率估计循环预测其执行能耗。下一步目标通过最小化预测能耗并结合双层规划架构保障探索进度与安全执行。我们在包含旋转速度驱动功率模型的仿真3D环境中,评估了完整探索流程。相比代表性距离基和信息增益基前沿基准,EAAE始终显著降低总能耗,同时保持相近探索时间与地图质量,在不改变现有框架的前提下提供即插即用的能量感知层。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Battery-powered multirotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can rapidly map unknown environments, but mission performance is often limited by energy rather than geometry alone. Standard exploration policies that optimise for coverage or time can therefore waste energy through manoeuvre-heavy trajectories. In this paper, we address energy-aware autonomous 3D exploration for multirotor UAVs in initially unknown environments. We propose Energy-Aware Autonomous Exploration (EAAE), a modular frontier-based framework that makes energy an explicit decision variable during frontier selection. EAAE clusters frontiers into view-consistent regions, plans dynamically feasible candidate trajectories to the most informative clusters, and predicts their execution energy using an offline power estimation loop. The next target is then selected by minimising predicted trajectory energy while preserving exploration progress through a dual-layer planning architecture for safe execution. We evaluate EAAE in a full exploration pipeline with a rotor-speed-based power model across simulated 3D environments of increasing complexity. Compared to representative distance-based and information gain-based frontier baselines, EAAE consistently reduces total energy consumption while maintaining competitive exploration time and comparable map quality, providing a practical drop-in energy-aware layer for frontier exploration.
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