arXiv:2604.15507cs.RO2026-04

在保证安全和任务成本的前提下,动态规划探索路径以平衡当前任务与长期不确定性降低。

Trajectory Planning for Safe Dual Control with Active Exploration

论文配图:Trajectory Planning for Safe Dual Control with Active Exploration
图 1 · 摘自论文原文
  • 通过双重门控机制,仅在可验证有益时才进行探索
  • 在四旋翼导航与自动驾驶赛车中实现安全与预算约束下的性能提升
  • 适合需要兼顾安全与学习能力的机器人系统设计

在模型不确定性下规划安全轨迹是核心挑战。鲁棒规划通过考虑最坏情况确保安全,但忽略不确定性减少,导致过度保守。主动在任务执行中实时降低不确定性构成双控制问题。现有方法通常通过加权探索项来权衡目标与不确定性减少,却未明确探索何时有益。此外,部分方法未严格保障安全。本文研究受预算约束的双控制问题:在满足安全要求和任务级成本预算(限制探索导致的任务性能下降)前提下减少不确定性。提出Dual-gatekeeper框架,融合鲁棒规划与主动探索,并提供安全与预算可行性形式化保证。核心思想是仅当探索能带来可验证收益且不损害安全或违反预算时才执行,实现即时任务表现与长期不确定性降低的合理权衡。基于两种不同安全机制实现该框架,并在参数不确定性下的四旋翼导航与自动驾驶赛车案例中验证性能。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Planning safe trajectories under model uncertainty is a fundamental challenge. Robust planning ensures safety by considering worst-case realizations, yet ignores uncertainty reduction and leads to overly conservative behavior. Actively reducing uncertainty on-the-fly during a nominal mission defines the dual control problem. Most approaches address this by adding a weighted exploration term to the cost, tuned to trade off the nominal objective and uncertainty reduction, but without formal consideration of when exploration is beneficial. Moreover, safety is enforced in some methods but not in others. We study a budget-constrained dual control problem, where uncertainty is reduced subject to safety and a mission-level cost budget that limits the allowable degradation in task performance due to exploration. In this work, we propose Dual-gatekeeper, a framework that integrates robust planning with active exploration under formal guarantees of safety and budget feasibility. The key idea is that exploration is pursued only when it provides a verifiable improvement without compromising safety or violating the budget, enabling the system to balance immediate task performance with long-term uncertainty reduction in a principled manner. We provide two implementations of the framework based on different safety mechanisms and demonstrate its performance on quadrotor navigation and autonomous car racing case studies under parametric uncertainty.

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