无人机自主近距巡检管道,抗扰动视觉伺服更精准
Autonomous UAV Pipeline Near-proximity Inspection via Disturbance-Aware Predictive Visual Servoing

- 用图像预测控制融合动力学与视觉特征,实现闭环图像空间控制
- 实测中管道朝向误差降低52.63%,横向偏差减少75.04%,风扰和弯管场景成功通过
- 适合需要高精度、强鲁棒性的无人机工业巡检任务
可靠的管道巡检对能源运输安全至关重要,但受限于长距离、复杂地形及人工巡检风险。无人机提供灵活感知平台,但自主巡检仍具挑战。本文提出基于图像视觉伺服模型预测控制(VMPC)的三维场景下四旋翼近距管道自主巡检框架。统一预测模型耦合四旋翼动力学与图像特征运动学,实现控制回路内的直接图像空间预测。为应对低频视觉更新、测量噪声与环境不确定性,提出含图像特征预测的扩展状态卡尔曼滤波(ESKF-PRE),并将估计的综合扰动引入VMPC预测模型,形成ESKF-PRE-VMPC框架。引入地形自适应速度设计,在未知坡度上保持设定巡航速度并生成垂直速度参考,无需先验地形信息。在高保真Gazebo仿真与真实实验中验证。真实测试中,该方法在无风条件下使管道朝向与横向偏差的均方根误差分别降低52.63%和75.04%,并在风扰与弯管任务中成功完成,基线方法失败。改装开源纳米四旋翼用于室内实验。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Reliable pipeline inspection is critical to safe energy transportation, but is constrained by long distances, complex terrain, and risks to human inspectors. Unmanned aerial vehicles provide a flexible sensing platform, yet reliable autonomous inspection remains challenging. This paper presents an autonomous quadrotor near-proximity pipeline inspection framework for three-dimensional scenarios based on image-based visual servoing model predictive control (VMPC). A unified predictive model couples quadrotor dynamics with image feature kinematics, enabling direct image-space prediction within the control loop. To address low-rate visual updates, measurement noise, and environmental uncertainties, an extended-state Kalman filtering scheme with image feature prediction (ESKF-PRE) is developed, and the estimated lumped disturbances are incorporated into the VMPC prediction model, yielding the ESKF-PRE-VMPC framework. A terrain-adaptive velocity design is introduced to maintain the desired cruising speed while generating vertical velocity references over unknown terrain slopes without prior terrain information. The framework is validated in high-fidelity Gazebo simulations and real-world experiments. In real-world tests, the proposed method reduces RMSE by 52.63% and 75.04% in pipeline orientation and lateral deviation in the image, respectively, for straight-pipeline inspection without wind, and successfully completes both wind-disturbance and bend-pipeline tasks where baseline method fails. An open-source nano quadrotor is modified for indoor experimentation.
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