智能机器人在传感器故障与计算争用共现时,通过联合判断选择最优感知配置。
Belief-Space Perception Routing under Coupled Sensor Faults and Compute Contention

- 融合传感器故障与计算争用的联合概率估计,用噪声或逻辑建模耦合关系。
- 在六种条件下,任务超时率降低1.1至9.4个百分点,显著优于独立处理方案。
- 适用于自动驾驶等实时感知系统,尤其适合传感器与计算资源双重受限场景。
一台需按固定时钟运行的机器人同时面临两大挑战:摄像头在雨、泥、雾、黑暗中性能下降;其单个车载处理器还需共享用于规划与控制,导致感知可用算力每秒波动。现有系统通常将二者分开建模。本文提出一种感知路由机制,实时跟踪传感器故障状态和计算争用状态的概率估计,通过噪声或(noisy-OR)项耦合二者,并据此从四个检测器配置(YOLO11x/n,分辨率1280或640像素)中选择一个,确保图像在截止时间前完成处理。当两种压力同时出现时,联合策略使任务超时率降低1.1至9.4个百分点,相较于独立处理策略,五组条件区间均不包含零值;10个序列、6种条件下的合并效应经符号检验,p = 0.001,所有独立对照组与无故障轨迹的超时率均为0.0个百分点。每帧路由开销仅数十微秒。进一步验证发现,在八段真实RADIATE恶劣天气序列及三个独立于故障信号的工作负载代理中,经Benjamini-Hochberg校正和复现测试后,24项检验均未发现耦合现象。因此,本文将该结果归因于机制证明,其在实际环境中是否自然发生仍待验证,所发布的评估管道可供部署方基于自身日志进一步检验。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
A robot that has to see and react on a fixed clock runs into two problems at once. Its cameras degrade in rain, mud, fog, and darkness. And the single onboard processor it runs on is shared with planning and control, so the compute left over for perception moves around from second to second. Most systems model the two separately. We present a perception router that tracks probabilistic estimates of sensor-fault state and compute- contention state, couples them with a noisy-OR term, and uses the coupled estimate to pick one of four detector configurations (YOLO11x/n at 1280 or 640 px) so that the frame finishes before its deadline. Where the two stressors co-occur, the coupled policy cuts the deadline-miss rate by 1.1 to 9.4 percentage points against a policy that treats them independently. The interval excludes zero in five of six conditions, the pooled effect over 10 sequences and 6 conditions has sign-test p = 0.001, and every uncoupled control and the fault-free trajectory sit at exactly 0.0 pp. Routing costs tens of microseconds per frame. We then asked whether the coupling the method exploits arises on its own. Across eight real RADIATE adverse-weather sequences and three workload proxies independent of the fault signal, after Benjamini-Hochberg correction and a replication run, none of 24 tests found it. We report that null and scope the routing result as a proof of mechanism. Whether such coupling occurs in the field is still open, and the released evaluation pipeline lets a deployment settle it on its own traces.
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