用Transformer+混合密度网络预测飞行物轨迹,精度提升50%且支持实时部署。
AeroCast: Probabilistic 3D Trajectory Prediction for Non-Cooperative Aerial Obstacles via Transformer-MDN Architecture

- 采用Transformer与混合密度网络结合,输出三维位移的概率分布。
- 在五秒预测时长下,误差降低约50%,对数似然和概率评分最优。
- 适合需要高精度轨迹预测的无人机避障系统,支持毫秒级实时推理。
自主飞行器在共享空域中需预测非合作障碍物的未来位置以提前规划避障路径。与共享意图的合作系统不同,鸟类、失控无人机或碎片等非合作障碍物具有多模态运动特性,传统确定性预测无法充分建模。现有方法或依赖递归编码器,难以捕捉远距离运动前兆;或仅输出点预测,缺乏分布信息供下游规划使用。本文提出AeroCast,一种融合Transformer编码器与混合密度网络输出头的概率轨迹预测框架,可生成每时刻的三维位移高斯混合分布。通过平移不变的连续位移编码和校准导向的训练目标,有效解决输入设计与模式退化问题。在涵盖九种运动类别的真实与合成四轴飞行器数据集上,AeroCast相较于基线方法在五秒预测时长下平均位移误差和最终位移误差降低约50%,负对数似然与连续排名概率评分均最低。消融分析表明速度输入和模型容量是预测质量的关键,位置编码对长时轨迹一致性至关重要。单样本推理仅需0.1ms,支持100Hz实时机载部署。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Autonomous aerial vehicles operating in shared airspace must predict the future positions of non-cooperative obstacles to plan evasive maneuvers before a collision becomes unavoidable. Unlike cooperative systems that share intent, non-cooperative obstacles such as birds, uncontrolled drones, or debris exhibit multi-modal motion that deterministic predictors cannot adequately represent. Existing methods either rely on recurrent encoders that propagate temporal information sequentially, limiting their ability to capture long-range kinematic precursors of maneuver initiation, or produce point forecasts that provide no distributional information to downstream planners. This paper presents AeroCast, a probabilistic trajectory prediction framework that combines a Transformer encoder with a Mixture Density Network output head to predict per-timestep Gaussian mixture distributions over future three-dimensional displacements. A translation-invariant consecutive displacement encoding and a calibration-oriented training objective address the input design and mode-degeneracy challenges specific to mixture-based aerial trajectory prediction. On a hybrid real-and-synthetic quadrotor corpus spanning nine motion categories, AeroCast reduces Average Displacement Error and Final Displacement Error by approximately 50% relative to the baselines over a five-second horizon, and achieves the lowest negative log-likelihood and Continuous Ranked Probability Score among all compared methods. Ablation analysis identifies velocity input and model capacity as the primary contributors to prediction quality, and positional encoding as essential for long-horizon trajectory coherence. AeroCast inference completes in 0.1ms per sample, compatible with real-time onboard deployment at 100Hz.
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