让无人机在未知3D环境里边飞边看,看得清才敢走。
FLAP: FOV-Constrained Active Perception Planning for Prior-Map-Free 3D Navigation

- 把感知范围限制直接融入路径优化,动态调整观察时机。
- 实测在多种传感器配置下都能安全高效飞行,避免撞到突然出现的障碍物。
- 适合做无人飞行器实时导航,尤其对视野受限场景有明显优势。
在未知且杂乱的三维环境中,安全高效的轨迹规划是部署无人机的关键瓶颈,尤其受限于机载传感器的视场(FOV)和感知距离。现有方法或对未探索空间做出简化假设,或依赖保守启发式策略(如速度限制、固定感知模式),导致效率低下且难以泛化。本文提出一种新规划框架,将主动感知直接整合进轨迹优化,提升安全性同时保持高效性。感知约束基于无人机动力学模型,在传感器坐标系中建模,精准处理视场几何。通过速度触发的感知激活机制,平衡感知与运动效率。引入可参数化起始时间的主动感知子轨迹段,缓解因障碍物检测延迟带来的碰撞风险。该方法支持任意三维机动,超越以往主要针对水平运动的设计。所有约束与惩罚均纳入可微优化问题,仅需简单前端全局路径引导,无需耗时的感知感知路径生成器。大量仿真与真实实验表明,该方法在不同未知环境及传感器配置下均表现稳健。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Safe and efficient trajectory planning in unknown, cluttered 3D environments constitutes a critical bottleneck for deploying Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in real-world applications. This challenge is further exacerbated by the limited field-of-view (FOV) and sensing range of onboard sensors. Many existing methods either make simplistic assumptions about unexplored space or rely on conservative heuristics such as speed limits or fixed perception patterns, reducing efficiency and generalizing poorly across different sensor types. In this work, we propose a novel planning framework that directly integrates active perception into trajectory optimization, thereby improving safety while preserving efficiency. The perception constraints are derived from the UAV's dynamic model and formulated in the sensor coordinate frame, which enables precise handling of FOV geometry. The velocity-triggered activation mechanism enables the planner to balance perception and motion efficiency. We introduce an active perception sub-trajectory segment with parametric start-time optimization, mitigating collision risks from late obstacle detection. Our formulation enables active perception during arbitrary 3D maneuvers, extending beyond prior methods designed mainly for horizontal motion. All constraints and penalties are incorporated into a differentiable optimization problem, so the planner requires only a simple front-end global path for guidance, rather than a computationally expensive perception-aware path generator. Extensive simulations and real-world experiments demonstrate robust performance across diverse unknown environments with varying sensor configurations.
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