为类人机器人设计可安全急停的状态判断模型,避免突然断电导致摔倒。
Learning Safe-Stoppability Monitors for Humanoid Robots
- 用神经网络学习机器人在哪些状态下能安全急停
- 通过重要性采样提升稀有危险状态的探索效率
- 可在真实机器人上部署,支持主动安全监控
紧急停止(E-stop)是机器人安全的默认机制。但对于类人机器人,突然切断电源可能引发灾难性后果;因此,急停必须触发预设的恢复控制器以维持平衡并引导机器人进入低风险状态。这引出一个关键问题:在哪些状态下类人机器人可以安全执行急停?本文将类人机器人的紧急停止形式化为依赖策略的安全可急停性问题,并采用数据驱动方法刻画安全可急停区域。提出PRISM(主动重要性采样停机监测器优化)框架,基于仿真学习神经预测器以判断状态级别的可急停性。该框架通过重要性采样迭代优化决策边界,实现对罕见但高危状态的针对性探索,在固定仿真预算下显著提升数据效率并减少误判为安全的情况。进一步通过在真实类人机器人平台部署预训练监测器验证了从仿真到现实的迁移能力。结果表明,将安全建模为依赖策略的可急停性,可实现主动安全监控,并支持类人机器人故障安全行为的规模化认证。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Emergency stop (E-stop) mechanisms are the de facto standard for robot safety. However, for humanoid robots, abruptly cutting power can itself cause catastrophic failures; instead, an emergency stop must execute a predefined fallback controller that preserves balance and drives the robot toward a minimum-risk condition. This raises a critical question: from which states can a humanoid robot safely execute such a stop? In this work, we formalize emergency stopping for humanoids as a policy-dependent safe-stoppability problem and use data-driven approaches to characterize the safe-stoppable envelope. We introduce PRISM (Proactive Refinement of Importance-sampled Stoppability Monitor), a simulation-driven framework that learns a neural predictor for state-level stoppability. PRISM iteratively refines the decision boundary using importance sampling, enabling targeted exploration of rare but safety-critical states. This targeted exploration significantly improves data efficiency while reducing false-safe predictions under a fixed simulation budget. We further demonstrate sim-to-real transfer by deploying the pretrained monitor on a real humanoid platform. Results show that modeling safety as policy-dependent stoppability enables proactive safety monitoring and supports scalable certification of fail-safe behaviors for humanoid robots.
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