让传感器自由移动,按需选择最佳视角。
SensorPerch: Sense Wherever and Whenever it Matters

- 传感器可拆卸、可自主停靠,摆脱机器人和固定设施束缚。
- 在物体状态检测任务中,即使机器人不在场也能成功识别事件。
- 适合需要灵活视角的复杂任务,如多策略感知与长期监测。
现有机器人感知受限于固定安装或随机器人携带的传感器,视角受限。随着机器人任务多样化,最优观测位置频繁变化,现有系统难以满足。为此,我们提出SensorPerch,一种新型主动感知范式:将传感器视为可独立部署的物理实体,机器人可自主将其拆卸并重新附着于环境表面。SensorPerch包括轻量级、无线、可重构的传感器平台,能停靠于多种表面,并配备视角选择框架,动态确定任务最优部署位置。该系统使机器人可按需构建任务相关的观测视角,不受自身位置或固定基础设施限制。我们在两类任务中验证:(i) 物体关联感知,实现机器人远离时仍持续检测物体状态,成功事件检测;(ii) 策略关联感知,为不同策略构建专属视角,性能接近使用理想视角的基准。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Existing robotic perception is constrained by sensors that are either robot-mounted or permanently fixed in the environment, locking perception to a limited set of viewpoints. Yet as robots perform increasingly diverse tasks, the most informative viewpoint shifts from one task to the next-often somewhere onboard sensor and static infrastructure can not readily satisfy. To address this gap, we propose SensorPerch, a novel realization of active perception that decouples sensing from both the robot embodiment and the environment by treating sensors as independent physical entities that the robot can autonomously detach and re-attach within the environment. SensorPerch presents one realization of this paradigm: a lightweight, wireless, reconfigurable sensor platform that can perch on diverse surfaces, paired with a viewpoint-selection framework that determines task-optimal sensor placements. Together, these enable robots to construct task-relevant viewpoints on demand, independent of the robot's current position and available fixed infrastructure. We demonstrate the paradigm on two task classes: (i) object-coupled perception, where SensorPerch enables persistent object-state detection beyond the robot's current position, achieving successful event detection even when the robot is not nearby; and (ii) policy-coupled perception, where SensorPerch allows robots to construct diverse, policy-specific viewpoints for various policies, achieving success rates comparable to those obtained using oracle viewpoints.
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