提出快速多机械臂规划算法,显著提升复杂环境下的实时规划效率。
Conflict-Based Lazy Search for Fast Multi-Manipulator Planning

- 基于冲突搜索框架,引入预计算与懒惰搜索优化单机械臂路径求解
- 相比A*算法,边评估次数减少,路径规划速度提升一个数量级
- 适合需要高实时性的工业多机械臂协同场景
使用多个机械臂可提升作业效率并完成单个机械臂无法实现的任务。然而,在杂乱工作空间中实现实时多机械臂规划仍对算法构成重大挑战。本文提出一种名为冲突基懒惰搜索(CBLS)的新规划算法,用于多机械臂规划。CBLS基于冲突基搜索(CBS),这是一种高效的多智能体路径规划(MAPF)算法,相比以往方法已实现数量级提速[1][2]。CBS通过求解多个单智能体路径规划(SAPF)问题来解决MAPF问题,因此其规划时间直接依赖于所采用SAPF算法的效率。本文提出的CBLS算法通过预计算和懒惰搜索对CBS进行增强:首先为单个机械臂预计算一个可控稀疏度的懒惰评估图;其次提出懒惰边A*(LEA*)以高效求解SAPF。由于边评估是机械臂规划中的计算瓶颈,LEA*利用懒惰搜索和边队列机制减少了边评估次数。我们证明了LEA*在顶点效率上最优,并且相比A*具有更好的边效率。将所提CBLS应用于多机械臂规划问题,与CBS及基于采样的RRT-Connect算法相比,表现出更优性能。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Employing multiple manipulators can boost efficiency and accomplish tasks that a single manipulator cannot do. However, real-time planning for multiple manipulators in a cluttered workspace still poses significant challenges for planning algorithms. This article proposes a new planning algorithm called Conflict-Based Lazy Search (CBLS) for multimanipulator planning. CBLS is built on Conflict-Based Search (CBS), an efficient multiagent pathfinding (MAPF) algorithm that has shown an order of magnitude speedup over previous approaches [1], [2]. CBS addresses MAPF by solving many single-agent pathfinding (SAPF) problems. Thus, its planning time directly depends on the efficiency of the SAPF algorithm adopted. Our CBLS algorithm enhances CBS with precomputation and lazy search. First, a lazily evaluated graph with controlled sparsity is precomputed for a single manipulator. Second, we propose the Lazy Edged-based A* (LEA*) for efficient SAPF. Since edge evaluation is the computational bottleneck of manipulator planning, LEA* uses lazy search and an edge queue to reduce the number of edge evaluations. We show that LEA* is optimally vertex efficient and has improved edge efficiency compared to A*. We apply the proposed CBLS to multi-manipulator planning problems and show its superior performance by comparing it with CBS and a sampling-based algorithm, namely, RRT-Connect.
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