机器人边接触边学习未知表面,自动规划全覆盖路径。
ErgoSurf: Ergodic Control for the Coverage of Unknown Surfaces

- 用触觉数据在线构建表面模型,无需事先扫描
- 覆盖误差逼近真实表面,实现同步探索与建模
- 适合未知或动态环境中的打磨、清洁等任务
接触式表面任务(如检测、清洁、打磨)要求机器人系统性覆盖表面并保持稳定接触。传统遍历控制依赖表面几何先验知识或需预先视觉扫描,限制了其在未知或动态环境中的应用。本文提出一种新型在线遍历控制框架,在实现系统性表面覆盖的同时,同步重建未知表面几何。采用高斯过程隐式表面(GPIS)模型,从执行过程中的内在触觉传感中学习全局表面结构。为实现高效在线规划,通过在已观测接触点的切平面采样点云,迭代拟合高斯过程,该局部近似同时作为目标分布与覆盖分布的采样域。利用热扩散类比计算势场,将空间覆盖目标转化为平滑机器人轨迹。通过仿真与真实机器人实验验证,框架实现了遍历覆盖与在线表面几何学习的同步,重建误差逼近真实值。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Contact-centric tasks on surfaces, ranging from inspection and cleaning to sanding and polishing, require robots to systematically cover the surface while maintaining stable contact. Ergodic control generates trajectories that spend time at a location proportional to a desired, task-specific spatial distribution, enabling efficient information gathering and coverage. However, traditional ergodic control methods rely on prior knowledge of surface geometry or require a vision sensory input to scan the geometry beforehand, limiting their applicability in real-world scenarios with unknown or dynamic environments. This paper introduces a novel online ergodic control framework that achieves systematic surface coverage while simultaneously reconstructing unknown surface geometry. We employ a Gaussian Process Implicit Surface (GPIS) model that learns global surface geometry from intrinsic tactile sensing during execution. For efficient online planning, we approximate the surface locally using point clouds sampled from tangent planes at observed contact points and iteratively fit them to the Gaussian Process. This approximation simultaneously serves as the sampling domain for both the target and the coverage distributions. We employ a heat-diffusion analogy to compute potential fields that guide ergodic exploration, translating spatial coverage objectives into smooth robot trajectories. We demonstrate our framework through simulation and real-robot experiments, validating simultaneous ergodic coverage and online surface geometry learning with reconstruction errors approaching the ground truth.
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