为非圆形机器人设计可旋转导航图,提升复杂环境路径规划效率
SE(2) Navigation Mesh

- 基于姿态依赖的可通行性建模,构建带方向信息的多层网格
- 在模拟中比传统方法多覆盖50%以上可通行区域,路径成功率更高
- 支持实时更新,适合动态环境中机器人在线导航
地面机器人在复杂多层环境中进行全局导航,需要能准确表示可通行区域并支持高效路径规划的结构。现有方法存在明显局限:点云和体素占用图缺乏显式的表面结构以评估可通行性;直接在密集三角网格上进行路径规划计算开销过大。导航网格通过多边形抽象解决了部分问题,但假设可通行性与朝向无关,不适用于非圆形机器人在狭窄空间中的导航。本文提出SE(2)导航网格(SE(2) NavMesh),一种编码姿态依赖可通行性的多边形表示。该方法使用足迹掩码评估可通行性,构建具有显式平移与旋转连通性的姿态特定层级图。基于此表示,我们开发了分层优化位置与朝向的A*-String Pulling-A*(ASA)路径规划策略。同时提出一种在线方法,可在几何重建过程中从流式点云增量更新SE(2) NavMesh。仿真结果显示,该方法比传统导航网格多捕获超过50%的可通行区域,且在受限环境中始终优于采样基基线。真实机器人实验验证了其在多个场景下的实时在线生成与成功导航能力。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Global navigation for ground robots in complex multi-level environments requires representations that accurately capture traversable regions while enabling efficient path planning. Current approaches present key limitations: Point clouds and volumetric occupancy maps lack explicit surface structure for traversability estimation, whereas direct pathfinding on dense triangle meshes is computationally prohibitive. Navigation meshes mitigate these challenges through polygonal abstraction of the underlying mesh, but assume yaw-invariant traversability, rendering them unsuitable for non-circular robots in constrained spaces. We propose SE(2) Navigation Mesh (SE(2) NavMesh), a polygonal representation of traversable regions that encodes yaw-dependent traversability. Our method evaluates traversability using footprint masks and constructs a graph over yaw-specific layers with explicit translational and rotational connectivity. Grounded in this representation, we develop an A*-String Pulling-A* (ASA) pathfinding strategy that hierarchically optimizes robot position and heading. We also present an online method that incrementally updates the SE(2) NavMesh from streaming point clouds during concurrent geometry reconstruction. In simulation, the SE(2) NavMesh captures over 50% more traversable area than classical NavMeshes, and the SE(2) NavMesh + ASA pipeline consistently outperforms sampling-based baselines in constrained environments. Extensive real-world experiments on a physical robot validate real-time online generation and successful navigation across multiple environments.
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