用扩散模型生成多模态环境猜想,结合规划实现未知环境下的高效导航
Generative-Model Predictive Planning for Navigation in Partially Observable Environments

- 用扩散模型建模多种可能的环境状态,捕捉感知混淆下的不确定性
- 在合成地图上导航成功率提升32%,路径效率优于基线方法
- 适合复杂、部分可观测场景下的机器人导航任务
部分可观测环境中的导航对自主智能体构成重大挑战,需在有限感知信息下做出有效决策。基于信念的方法,尤其是使用神经网络近似信念空间的方法,通常无法捕捉高维情况下因感知混淆导致的信念分布多重性。尽管生成模型提供有前景的替代方案,但它们通常需要大量数据或专家示范,且缺乏显式的长期规划机制。本文提出BeliefDiffusion框架,融合生成与规划优势:利用扩散模型显式刻画多模态信念分布,并通过模型预测控制(MPC)进行前瞻规划。该框架包含两步:(1) 根据观测历史想象可能的环境配置;(2) 在聚合配置上规划高效导航策略。在合成地图环境中进行的大量实验表明,BeliefDiffusion在导航成功率和路径效率上显著优于无模型强化学习基线及其他生成方法。结果验证了将多模态信念表示显式融入规划,可提升部分可观测环境下导航的鲁棒性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Navigation in partially observable environments presents a significant challenge for autonomous agents, requiring effective decision-making with limited sensory information in unknown environments. Belief-based methods, particularly those using neural networks to approximate the belief space, often fail to capture the inherent multimodality of belief spaces, especially in high-dimensional cases with perceptual aliasing. While generative models present a compelling alternative, they typically require substantial data or expert demonstrations and lack explicit mechanisms for long-term planning. In this paper, we introduce BeliefDiffusion, a novel framework that combines the benefits of both generation and planning. BeliefDiffusion leverages diffusion models to explicitly characterize multimodal belief distributions and utilizes Model Predictive Control (MPC) to simultaneously plan ahead. It consists of two steps: (1) Imagining plausible environment configurations based on observation history and (2) Planning efficient navigation strategies across an aggregated configurations. Through extensive experiments in synthetic map environments, we demonstrate that BeliefDiffusion significantly outperforms both model-free reinforcement learning baselines and other generative approaches in navigation success rate and path efficiency. Our results validate that explicitly incorporating multimodal belief representations into planning enables more robust navigation in partially observable settings.
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