用视觉信息校准动态不确定性,让预测更可靠且无需特定环境数据
Local Conformal Calibration of Dynamics Uncertainty from Semantic Images

- 基于感知信息的局部校准方法,利用相似环境数据提升不确定性估计精度
- 在分布内与分布外场景下均有效,生成体积紧凑的置信区间
- 适合需要概率安全规划的自动驾驶、机器人系统
我们提出观察感知的共形不确定性局部校准方法(OCULAR),一种基于共形预测的算法,利用感知信息为未知测试环境提供不确定性量化保证。以往共形方法无法区分状态-动作空间中不同区域的模型失配程度,且需依赖特定环境数据;而本方法使用视觉相似环境采集的数据,对任意精度的线性高斯动态模型进行可证明的校准。OCULAR生成的预测区域在存在偶然性和认知不确定性的情况下,仍能以用户设定的置信度包含未来系统状态,且保证是非渐近、分布无关的,无需对真实系统动态做强假设。校准过程可区分不同观测-速度-动作输入导致的高低不确定性,有助于概率安全规划。我们在受随机扰动和显著模型失配影响的双积分器系统上进行了数值验证,分别采用简化传感器和更真实的模拟相机。结果表明,该方法在分布内和分布外场景下均能校准近似不确定性估计,生成体积高效的预测区域,且不需环境特定数据。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
We introduce Observation-aware Conformal Uncertainty Local-Calibration (OCULAR), a conformal prediction-based algorithm that uses perception information to provide uncertainty quantification guarantees for unseen test-time environments. While previous conformal approaches lack the ability to discriminate between state-action space regions leading to higher or lower model mismatch, and require environment-specific data, our method uses data collected from visually similar environments to provably calibrate a linear Gaussian dynamics model of arbitrary fidelity. The prediction regions generated from OCULAR are guaranteed to contain the future system states with, at least, a user-set likelihood, despite both aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty -- i.e., uncertainty arising from both stochastic disturbances and lack of data. Our guarantees are non-asymptotic and distribution-free, not requiring strong assumptions about the unknown real system dynamics. Our calibration procedure enables distinguishing between observation-velocity-action inputs leading to higher and lower next-state-uncertainty, which is helpful for probabilistically-safe planning. We numerically validate our algorithm on a double-integrator system subject to random perturbations and significant model mismatch, using both a simplified sensor and a more realistic simulated camera. Our approach calibrates approximate uncertainty estimates both when in-distribution and out-of-distribution, producing volume-efficient prediction regions without requiring environment-specific data.
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