arXiv:2606.08249cs.ROcs.LG2026-06

用智能无人机监测野生动物,减少干扰并保持行为真实。

Disturbance-Aware Aerial Robotics for Ethical Wildlife Monitoring

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  • 基于强化学习设计可感知干扰的无人机控制策略。
  • 在三种动物上测试,均优于传统规则方法且跨物种通用。
  • 适合生态学、保护生物学中的非侵入式观测研究者使用。

可靠的野生动物监测对生态学与保护工作至关重要,但现有方法如标记、捕捉和近距离观察会改变目标行为。无人机提供了一种可扩展的替代方案,但多数现有方法缺乏行为意识,依赖固定规则或需昂贵且难以获取的真实世界训练数据。本研究提出一种面向异构无人机群的扰动感知强化学习框架,实现自主追踪同时显著降低行为干扰。通过结合基于动物行为学的仿真环境与真实轨迹统计推导的运动模型,采用权衡观测质量与扰动风险的奖励函数训练控制策略。在鸽子、豺和刺翼鹭三种生态与运动模式各异的物种上,以及四种自然界常见策略性行为模型下,所学策略持续超越现有规则基基线,并具备跨任务、动物动态和无人机类型的泛化能力。结果表明,扰动感知学习是实现非侵入式自主野生动物观测的可行基础,为生态与保护领域的规模化、伦理化、科学可靠机器人监测开辟新路径。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Reliable wildlife monitoring is essential for ecology and conservation, yet many existing methods, such as tagging, capture, and close-range observation, can alter the very behaviors they aim to measure. Aerial robots offer a scalable alternative, which has shown promising performance in multiple studies. Nonetheless, existing approaches typically lack behavioral awareness, rely on fixed heuristics, or require real-world training data that are costly, impractical, and ethically difficult to obtain. As a result, there remains no general framework for adaptive drone-based monitoring that can both preserve ecological validity and scale across species, behaviors, and robotic platforms. In this study, we introduce a disturbance-aware reinforcement-learning-based framework for heterogeneous aerial robotic fleets that enables autonomous wildlife tracking while explicitly minimizing behavioral disruption. We couple a zoologically grounded simulation environment with fitted animal movement models derived from real trajectory statistics, and train control policies using a reward formulation that captures the trade-off between observation quality and disturbance risk. Across three species (pigeon, jackal, and spur-winged lapwing) with distinct ecologies and motion patterns and four increasingly strategic behavior models common in nature, the learned policies consistently surpassed currently used rule-based baselines and generalized across monitoring tasks, animal dynamics, and drone types. These results establish disturbance-aware learning as a viable foundation for non-invasive autonomous wildlife observation, opening a path towards scalable, ethically responsible, and scientifically reliable robotic monitoring in ecology and conservation.

无人机监测强化学习生态保护行为干扰

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