arXiv:2607.20392cs.RO2026-07

用可生长软机器人部署麦克风阵列,实现灾难现场高精度声源定位。

Distributed Acoustic Localization Array Deployed Using a Soft Everting Vine Robot

论文配图:Distributed Acoustic Localization Array Deployed Using a Soft Everting Vine Robot
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  • 在软体藤蔓机器人上嵌入分布式麦克风阵列,动态调整感知方向。
  • 三麦克风外展后,近场三维声源定位误差小于10厘米。
  • 适用于复杂废墟环境下的搜救任务,适合救援机器人研究者。

本文提出一种基于软体藤蔓机器人的分布式声学传感系统,用于在受限非结构化环境中定位灾后幸存者。该系统将五麦克风阵列沿机器人本体分布,结合动态相位变换定向响应功率(Steered Response Power with Phase Transform)框架,支持远场波达方向估计与近场三维声源定位。实验对比了三种麦克风布置位置(内部压力腔、内尾部、外部壁面)与四种机器人构型(直线、双直线、圆形、正弦形)下的定位精度,分析了信噪比、声源接近方向及距离中心位置变化对性能的影响。最终展示机器人在任意形状生长过程中,仅需三个麦克风外展即可实现近场声源的高精度定位,误差低于10厘米。结果验证了分布式声学传感在软体生长机器人上的可行性与可靠性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Soft robot exteroception is increasingly being explored for a variety of field applications. In this work, we present a sound-based system for localizing disaster victims in confined and unstructured environments, based on a distributed acoustic sensing architecture embedded along the body of a soft everting vine robot. We propose a dynamic Steered Response Power with Phase Transform framework that supports both far-field direction-of-arrival estimation and near-field three-dimensional source localization as the robot approaches the sound source. To better understand the design and control space related to localizing sound using a soft, shape-morphing robot body, we conduct experiments measuring the accuracy of these methods for a five-microphone array attached to the robot body using three placements relative to the outer membrane of the robot (inside the pressurized body, inside the inner tail, and outside the outer wall) and in four robot configurations (linear, double linear, circular, and sinusoidal). We measure the change in accuracy as the signal-to-noise ratio, the direction of approach, and the distance of the sound source from the center of the array change. Finally, we demonstrate a vine robot growing into an arbitrary shape while carrying microphones along its outer wall, and show that a sound source located with the array's near field can be localized with high accuracy after only three microphones have everted from the robot body. These results highlight the potential of distributed acoustic sensing for reliable victim localization using soft growing robots.

软体机器人声源定位搜救应用分布式传感

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