针对无人船测深路径规划,根据水深动态调整航迹间距与声呐角度,提升海底覆盖均匀性。
Multi-Depth Uniform Coverage Path Planning for Unmanned Surface Vehicle Surveying

- 基于粗略水深先验信息,动态调整航迹间距与声呐波束角。
- 合成与真实场景下海底覆盖率超92%,远超传统方法(最高仅65%)。
- 全自动设计适合无人船自主作业,实用性强。
本文提出一种新型无人水面艇海底地形测绘自动覆盖路径规划算法。所用多波束测深仪的探测范围受局部水深影响显著,单纯按固定深度布设等距航线无法保证海底均匀覆盖。当前普遍采用的简单之字形路径在人工设定航点后以恒定深度执行,存在覆盖不均问题。所提方案利用粗略的水深先验信息预处理目标区域,自适应引导路径生成与传感器探测范围配置。通过显式考虑水深变化,算法优化了航迹间距并调节探测波束宽度,实现更一致的海底覆盖。在复杂合成地形中验证,覆盖率超过99%,远高于传统之字形路径最高75%的覆盖水平;在基于真实海岸港湾数据的仿真中,覆盖率超92%,显著优于传统方法(低于65%)。该方法兼具优异性能与完全自动化特性,适用于自主海洋平台,具有实际应用价值。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
This paper introduces a novel automatic coverage path planning algorithm for bathymetry surveying with unmanned surface vehicles. The detection range of the mapping sensor employed - a multibeam echo sounder - is heavily influenced by local seafloor depths. Hence, a path designed to uniformly cover the sea surface does not guarantee uniform coverage of the seafloor. Yet this is currently the typical process for bathymetric surveys, with the simplistic boustrophedon scheme along manually selected waypoints at constant depths being the most widespread planner used. The proposed scheme incorporates coarse prior depth information to pre-process the target region and adaptively guide path generation and sensing range configuration. By explicitly accounting for depth variations, the proposed algorithm designs a coverage path with optimised spacing between survey passes that adjusts the sensing beam aperture to achieve more consistent seafloor coverage. The proposed method is shown to offer significant improvements in both synthetic and real-world scenarios. Validations in challenging synthetic terrains achieves coverage ratios beyond 99%, a marked improvement when compared with traditional boustrophedon paths revealing a maximum 75% coverage. The same trend appears in realistic simulations using real bathymetric data from a coastal harbour, with coverage reaching over 92%, and significantly surpassing boustrophedon sweeps with coverage rates below 65%. Beyond improved performance, the scheme also brings a fully automated design, suitable for autonomous marine vehicles, thus offering practical utilities for real-world applications.
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