arXiv:2606.20755cs.RO2026-06

用单目相机实现未知环境下的鲁棒导航,同时估计不确定性并优化路径。

UNSEEN: Uncertainty-aware Navigation via Sparse Estimation in Unknown Environments

论文配图:UNSEEN: Uncertainty-aware Navigation via Sparse Estimation in Unknown Environments
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  • 基于单目相机构建统一框架,耦合定位、建图与规划,显式传递不确定性。
  • 在仿真和真实场景中,导航误差降低9.8%,估计精度提升45%,任务成功率100%。
  • 适合资源受限的移动机器人,在低纹理、光照变化等挑战环境下表现优异。

未知环境中的视觉导航仍是移动机器人领域的核心挑战,尤其对资源受限平台而言。现有方法多依赖松耦合模块化流程,并假设感知质量良好或环境结构已知,常需多模态传感器以增加系统复杂性和部署成本。纯视觉导航虽轻量,但在运动模糊、低纹理和光照变化下性能显著下降,主要因忽视了指令运动与感知之间的紧密耦合。尽管感知感知方法部分缓解此问题,但通常仅优化各模块,难以在导航链中一致传播不确定性。本文提出UNSEEN,一种统一的不确定性感知与感知感知导航框架,仅使用前向摄像头实现定位、建图与规划的紧密耦合。UNSEEN以6Hz频率估计稀疏地图与机器人位姿及其不确定性,并利用其在递推视野内联合优化任务进展与估计精度。仿真与大量真实世界实验表明,该方法具有强鲁棒性:UNSEEN-SLAM将绝对平移误差降低9.8%,UNSEEN-Plan估计精度最高提升45%,且任务成功率达100%。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Visual navigation in unknown environments remains a core challenge in mobile robotics, especially for resource-constrained platforms. Most existing approaches rely on loosely coupled modular pipelines and strong assumptions on perception quality or environmental structure, often resorting to multi-modal sensor suites that increase system complexity and deployment cost. Vision-only navigation offers a lightweight alternative, but its performance degrades severely under motion blur, low texture, and illumination changes, largely because they neglect the tight coupling between commanded motion and perception. While perception-aware methods partially address this issue, they typically optimize individual modules and fail to propagate uncertainty consistently across the navigation stack. In this paper, we present UNSEEN, a unified uncertainty- and perception-aware navigation framework that explicitly couples localization, mapping, and planning using only a front-mounted camera. UNSEEN estimates sparse maps and robot poses with associated uncertainties at 6Hz, and leverages them to plan trajectories that jointly optimize task progress and estimation accuracy in receding-horizon. Simulations and extensive real-world experiments in unknown environments demonstrate the robustness of the proposed approach, with UNSEEN-SLAM reducing absolute translational error by 9.8% and UNSEEN-Plan improving estimation accuracy by up to 45% compared to state-of-the-art methods, while achieving a 100% task success rate.

视觉导航不确定性单目相机机器人

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