用星形集过滤加速机器人避障空间计算,抗噪声且高效
STAR-Filter: Efficient Convex Free-Space Approximation via Starshaped Set Filtering in Noisy Environments

- 通过星形集快速筛选障碍物约束,减少冗余计算
- 在复杂噪声环境下计算时间最少,生成多面体更少保守
- 适合无人机敏捷飞行与真实场景路径规划
在复杂环境中,近似无碰撞空间是机器人规划的基础。凸几何表示(如多面体、椭球)因结构特性易于融入凸优化,被广泛应用。基于迭代优化的膨胀方法可在杂乱环境中生成大体积多面体,但随着障碍物复杂度增加或传感器数据噪声增大,效率显著下降,且对初始化敏感,依赖精确几何模型。本文提出STAR-Filter,一种轻量级框架,利用星形集构造作为凸区域生成的快速过滤器。通过识别障碍物点为活跃支撑约束,大幅减少冗余计算,同时保持可行性与对传感器噪声的鲁棒性。我们提供了理论与数值分析,刻画了星形集及所提流程在不同复杂度环境中的结构特性。仿真结果表明,该框架在真实噪声与大规模数据下计算时间最低,多面体生成更少保守。我们验证了其在安全飞行走廊(SFC)生成与噪声环境中高速四旋翼规划中的有效性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Approximating collision-free space is fundamental to robot planning in complex environments. Convex geometric representations, such as polytopes and ellipsoids, are widely employed due to their structural properties, which can be easily integrated with convex optimization. Iterative optimization-based inflation methods can generate large volume polytopes in cluttered environments, but their efficiency degrades as the obstacle set becomes more complex or when sensor data are noisy. These methods are also sensitive to initialization and often rely on accurate geometric models. In this paper, we propose the STAR-Filter, a lightweight framework that employs starshaped set construction as a fast filter for convex region generation in collision-free space. By identifying obstacle points as active supporting constraints, the proposed method significantly reduces redundant computation while preserving feasibility and robustness to sensor noise. We provide theoretical and numerical analyses that characterize the structural properties of the starshaped set and proposed pipeline in environments of varying complexity. Simulation results show that the proposed framework achieves the lowest computation time and reduces conservativeness in polytope generation for real-world noisy and large-scale data. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the framework for Safe Flight Corridor (SFC) generation and agile quadrotor planning in noisy environments.
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