arXiv:2603.23679cs.ROcs.AI2026-03KDD

用主动学习减少标注量,高效判断机械臂能否摘果。

Learning What Can Be Picked: Active Reachability Estimation for Efficient Robotic Fruit Harvesting

  • 将可采摘性建模为二分类问题,结合RGB-D与主动学习
  • 仅需6--8%更少样本即达更高准确率,优于随机采样
  • 适合新果园快速适配,降低人工标注负担

农业是全球健康与经济可持续性的基石,但高价值作物的采摘仍面临劳动力短缺。机器人采摘虽有潜力,但在非结构化果园中受限于低效的感知-决策流程。现有方法常依赖穷举逆运动学或路径规划判断果实可达性,导致计算冗余与延迟。本文提出结合RGB-D感知与主动学习,直接学习可采摘性这一二分类任务。通过主动学习选择最具信息量的样本进行标注,显著减少标注成本并保持高精度。大量实验表明,该框架在少量标注下实现更优预测性能,相较随机采样提升约6--8%准确率,并能高效适应新果园布局。熵和边界采样策略在低标注条件下优于委员会查询与标准不确定性采样,随着标注集增大,各类方法性能趋同。结果证明主动学习在农业机器人任务级感知中的有效性,为替代耗时的运动学可达性分析提供了可扩展方案。代码已开源:https://github.com/wsu-cyber-security-lab-ai/active-learning。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Agriculture remains a cornerstone of global health and economic sustainability, yet labor-intensive tasks such as harvesting high-value crops continue to face growing workforce shortages. Robotic harvesting systems offer a promising solution; however, their deployment in unstructured orchard environments is constrained by inefficient perception-to-action pipelines. In particular, existing approaches often rely on exhaustive inverse kinematics or motion planning to determine whether a target fruit is reachable, leading to unnecessary computation and delayed decision-making. Our approach combines RGB-D perception with active learning to directly learn reachability as a binary decision problem. We then leverage active learning to selectively query the most informative samples for reachability labeling, significantly reducing annotation effort while maintaining high predictive accuracy. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed framework achieves accurate reachability prediction with substantially fewer labeled samples, yielding approximately 6--8% higher accuracy than random sampling and enabling label-efficient adaptation to new orchard configurations. Among the evaluated strategies, entropy- and margin-based sampling outperform Query-by-Committee and standard uncertainty sampling in low-label regimes, while all strategies converge to comparable performance as the labeled set grows. These results highlight the effectiveness of active learning for task-level perception in agricultural robotics and position our approach as a scalable alternative to computation-heavy kinematic reachability analysis. Our code is available through https://github.com/wsu-cyber-security-lab-ai/active-learning.

机器人采摘主动学习农业机器人

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