arXiv:2605.09811cs.RO2026-05被引 6

用水面与水下视觉匹配实现无人船与潜航器协同定位,无需声呐通信。

Above and Below: Heterogeneous Multi-robot SLAM Across Surface and Underwater Domains

论文配图:Above and Below: Heterogeneous Multi-robot SLAM Across Surface and Underwater Domains
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  • 通过水面与水下视觉特征匹配实现跨域回环检测,替代传统声呐测距。
  • 在三种真实海况下验证,潜航器定位误差显著优于单机SLAM。
  • 首个基于视觉回环而非声学测距的水面-水下多机器人协同定位系统。

多机器人同时定位与地图构建(SLAM)是多机器人协同操作的基础任务。为完成协调动作,各机器人需对自身及队友位置有共同认知。然而,目前无人水面艇(USV)与自主水下航行器(AUV)之间的多机器人SLAM主要依赖声呐测距获取距离信息,该方法要求机器人处于相近位置、信号传播路径无遮挡且需时钟同步,在复杂海域因结构遮挡而难以实现。然而,这些障碍物在水面和水下均可被观测到,为跨域视觉回环提供了可能。本文在此基础上,提出一种中心化多机器人SLAM系统:各机器人独立进行状态估计,检测每个AUV与USV数据流间的回环闭合,并将这些跨机器人回环信息融合至统一图模型中,得到整个系统中所有机器人历史状态的联合估计。在三个不同真实海洋环境中进行验证,结果表明,相比单机SLAM,多机器人系统下AUV的定位误差显著降低。据我们所知,这是首个基于回环闭合而非声学测距的水面-水下多机器人协同定位系统。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Multi-robot simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a fundamental task in multi-robot operations. Robots must have a common understanding of their location and that of their team members to complete coordinated actions. However, multi-robot SLAM between Uncrewed Surface Vessels (USVs) and Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) has primarily been achieved through acoustic pinging between robots to retrieve range measurements; a measurement technique requires that robots to be in similar locations simultaneously, have an uninterrupted path for signal propagation, and may necessitate synchronized clocks. This is especially challenging in complex, cluttered maritime environments, where structures may impede signals. However, these same structures may be observable above and below the water's surface, presenting an opportunity for inter-robot SLAM loop closure between USV and AUV data streams. This work builds upon recent research on inter-robot SLAM loop closure between USV and AUV data, extending it to propose a centralized multi-robot SLAM system. Each robot performs its state estimation, and we detect loop closures between each AUV and the USV data. These inter-robot loop closures are used to merge each robot's state estimate into a centralized graph, yielding estimates for the whole time history of the USV and all AUVs in the system. Validation is performed using real-world perceptual data in three different environments. Results show improved errors for AUVs in the multi-robot SLAM system compared to single-robot SLAM over the same trajectories. To our knowledge, this is the first instance of a multi-robot SLAM system with AUVs and USVs built on loop closures rather than acoustic distance measurements.

多机器人SLAM跨域定位水下感知视觉回环

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