SAGA让无人机在复杂环境高速飞行时更安全高效。
SAGA: A Robust Self-Attention and Goal-Aware Anchor-based Planner for Safe UAV Autonomous Navigation

- 用自注意力和锚点结构统一规划与排序,单次前向计算完成路径决策。
- 在4米/秒速度下成功率100%,安全距离提升超30%,飞行时间缩短32%。
- 适合高动态、高密度障碍物场景的无人机自主导航系统开发者参考。
敏捷无人机在复杂环境中导航需兼具计算效率与运动推理能力。本文提出SAGA——一种鲁棒的自注意力与目标感知锚点式规划器。SAGA将局部规划建模为单阶段联合回归与排序问题,在固定运动锚点网格上进行预测。输入深度图与机体状态后,模型在一次前向传播中输出各锚点的优化终止状态与规划得分,再解码最优候选为动态可行轨迹。核心思想是将锚点对齐特征转换为几何感知的令牌,并通过自注意力实现跨锚点全局推理;为保持令牌空间的方向性,引入基于锚点偏航与俯仰的极坐标位置编码(PPE)。此外,目标感知调制模块在最终得分预测前注入速度、加速度与目标信息。在最大速度分别为2.0、3.0、4.0 m/s的密集柱状物环境测试中,SAGA始终达100%成功率;而YOPO从90.91%降至62.50%,Ego-planner从71.43%降至52.63%,Fast-planner从52.63%降至38.46%。在4.0 m/s条件下,相比YOPO,SAGA平均安全距离由1.9843米提升至2.3888米,最小安全距离由0.4390米增至0.7576米,总飞行时间由40.4631秒缩减至27.4901秒。消融实验表明,显式的极坐标位置编码对稳定跨锚点推理与安全路径选择至关重要。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Agile unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) navigation in cluttered environments demands a planning architecture that is both computationally efficient and structurally expressive enough to reason over multiple feasible motions. This paper presents SAGA, a robust self-attention and goal-aware anchor-based planner for safe UAV autonomous navigation. SAGA formulates local planning as a one-stage joint regression-and-ranking problem over a fixed lattice of motion anchors. Given a depth image and a body-frame motion state, the planner predicts refined terminal states and planning scores for all anchors in a single forward pass, after which the best candidate is decoded into a dynamically feasible trajectory. The key idea of SAGA is to transform anchor-aligned features into geometry-aware tokens and perform cross-anchor global reasoning with self-attention. To preserve directional structure in the token space, we further introduce a polar positional encoding derived from anchor yaw and pitch. In addition, a goal-aware modulation module injects velocity, acceleration, and target information into the token representation before final score prediction. Experiments in cluttered pillar-map environments under maximum speed settings of 2.0, 3.0, and 4.0~m/s show that SAGA consistently achieves a 100\% success rate, while YOPO drops from 90.91\% to 62.50\%, Ego-planner from 71.43\% to 52.63\%, and Fast-planner from 52.63\% to 38.46\%. Under the 4.0~m/s maximum speed setting, SAGA also improves average safety from 1.9843~m to 2.3888~m and minimum safety from 0.4390~m to 0.7576~m over YOPO, while reducing total flight time from 40.4631~s to 27.4901~s. The comparison with SAGA w/o PPE further shows that explicit polar positional encoding is critical for stable cross-anchor reasoning and safe passage selection in cluttered scenes.
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