多无人机协同感知,用信息增益规划路径,提升农田地图精度。
Multi-UAV Active Sensing with Information Gain-based Planning and Belief Fusion

- 基于信息增益的路径规划,动态选择最有价值观测点。
- 相比随机与扫掠路径,熵和误差降低30%以上,地图更准。
- 简单加权融合比自适应权重更稳定,贝叶斯等方法表现最优。
无人飞行器(UAV)在空间分布环境中越来越多地用于主动感知与信息采集。然而其性能受限于飞行时间有限、感知不确定性以及覆盖范围与观测精度之间的权衡。本文针对概率性二值地形映射,实证验证了多无人机主动感知框架在精准农业中的应用效果。环境以概率信念图表示,空间相关性通过因子图建模。无人机决策由基于信息增益的有信息路径规划(IGbIPP)驱动,并与随机游走及扫掠路径规划基线在合成地形和真实无人机获取的农业影像上进行对比。研究还评估了空间相关性权重及多种概率信念融合规则在多无人机信息共享中的表现。结果表明,IGbIPP在降低熵和地图误差方面优于基线,更宽视场角提升了真实世界覆盖率与地图准确性。此外,简单的等权重或偏置权重比自适应权重更具鲁棒性,贝叶斯、对数几率与Dempster-Shafer融合方法实现最佳协同映射性能。这些发现凸显了不确定性驱动规划、感知几何、空间建模与概率融合在真实场景无人机主动感知中的关键作用。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly used for active sensing and information gathering in spatially distributed environments. Their performance, however, is constrained by limited flight time, sensing uncertainty, and the trade-off between spatial coverage and observation accuracy. This paper presents a real-world validation of a multi-UAV active sensing framework for probabilistic binary terrain mapping, with precision agriculture used as the application case. The environment is represented as a probabilistic belief map, where spatial dependencies are modeled through a factor-graph formulation. UAV decision making is guided by Information Gain based Informative Path Planning (IGbIPP), and the approach is compared with Random Walk and Sweep coverage path planning baselines using both synthetic terrains and real UAV-derived agricultural imagery. The study also evaluates spatial correlation weights and several probabilistic belief-fusion rules for multi-UAV information sharing. Results show that IGbIPP reduces entropy and mapping error more effectively than the baselines, while a wider field of view improves real-world coverage and map accuracy. The results further show that simple equal or biased spatial weights can be more robust than adaptive weights, and that Bayesian, log-odds, and Dempster--Shafer fusion achieve the best cooperative mapping performance. These findings highlight the importance of uncertainty-driven planning, sensing geometry, spatial modeling, and probabilistic fusion for real-world UAV-based active sensing.
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