arXiv:2605.28330cs.RO2026-05

提出新方法提升自动驾驶在不确定环境下的安全导航能力

Chance-Constrained MPPI under State and Dynamic Object Prediction Uncertainty and the Evaluation of Collision Risk Calibration

  • 融合定位与动态障碍物预测不确定性,实时生成风险可控路径
  • 在复杂环境中导航成功率比基线高28%,且耗时更短
  • 适合关注自动驾驶安全性与可靠性评估的研究者和工程师

机会约束型模型预测路径积分(MPPI)控制被广泛用于动态环境中导航,以显式约束碰撞风险。然而,这些概率保证隐含假设上游的定位与感知不确定性已校准。实践中,估计器常存在偏差,导致闭环失效:过度自信引发系统性安全隐患,而过度保守则造成车辆冻结或概率稀释。为此,本文提出一种基于合理评分规则的评估方法,用于检验闭环执行中碰撞风险预测的统计有效性。同时,提出双不确定性机会约束管式MPPI(DUCCT-MPPI),一种实时、风险感知的规划架构。DUCCT-MPPI通过无迹变换近似定位不确定性,并结合蒙特卡洛聚合处理动态障碍物预测不确定性。在大量物理仿真中,该框架展现出强鲁棒性,在高度杂乱环境中无缝切换至安全保守行为,避免功能死锁。相比成熟蒙特卡洛MPPI基线,其导航成功率提升近28%,旅行时间最短,社会力影响最小。研究证明,可靠的概率安全性不仅依赖于表达性强的风险模型,更需整个自主系统中不确定性估计的统计有效性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Chance-constrained Model Predictive Path Integral (MPPI) control is increasingly adopted for navigation in dynamic environments to explicitly bound collision risk. However, these probabilistic guarantees implicitly assume that upstream uncertainties from localization and perception are well-calibrated. In practice, estimators are often miscalibrated, inducing characteristic closed-loop failure modes: overconfidence leads to systematic safety violations, while underconfidence triggers overly conservative freezing or probability dilution. To address this critical gap, our primary contribution is a rigorous evaluation methodology applying proper scoring rules to assess the statistical validity of predicted collision risks during closed-loop execution. Concurrently, Dual-Uncertainty Chance-Constrained Tube MPPI (DUCCT-MPPI) is proposed as a real-time, risk-aware planning architecture. DUCCT-MPPI jointly integrates localization uncertainty via a one-tube Unscented Transform (UT) approximation and dynamic obstacle prediction uncertainty via Monte Carlo aggregation. Through extensive physics-based simulations, the framework demonstrates robust failure-mitigation, seamlessly transitioning to safe, conservative maneuvering without succumbing to functional deadlocks in highly cluttered environments. In highly cluttered environments, DUCCT-MPPI achieves superior robustness, outperforming established Monte Carlo MPPI baselines by nearly 28\% in navigation success rate, while simultaneously recording the lowest travel times and minimizing induced social forces. Ultimately, these findings establish that reliable probabilistic safety in autonomous navigation dictates not only expressive risk models but statistically valid uncertainty estimates throughout the entire autonomy stack.

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