提出分层框架MANTA,实现水下机器人在狭窄环境中的安全自主操作。
Hierarchical Topology-Aware Planning and Control of Underwater Vehicle-Manipulator Systems in Confined Environments

- 三层次架构:先规划通路,再优化机械臂与基座协同轨迹,最后学习稳定控制策略。
- 120次测试中成功率更高,轨迹间隙更大,机械臂运动更少,跟踪误差更低。
- 适合水下勘探、管道检测等复杂受限场景,兼具安全性与数据效率。
本文针对在狭窄、杂乱且部分未知环境下,水下航行器-机械臂系统(UVMS)的自主干预问题,提出MANTA三层次分层规划与控制框架,融合通路可达性、操作可行性与闭环执行能力。第一层在保守缩减的基底空间中进行全局连通性推理,提取通往任务区域的可通行通道候选;第二层通过联合优化连续基座运动与机械臂轨迹,精炼每条候选通道,生成无碰撞的基座-机械臂轨迹;第三层利用基于高斯过程的模型化强化学习(MBRL)方法MC-PILCO,学习一个抓取并保持基座姿态的策略,实现对规划操作状态的轨迹跟踪与驻留控制。执行过程中,框架实时监测地图更新,当活动通道失效时可触发恢复与路径修复。在受限环境下的UVMS规划与闭环跟踪实验中,MANTA在120组匹配查询中均优于全状态采样基线,表现出更高的任务成功率,更大的间隙裕度和更小的机械臂运动量。所学MC-PILCO策略在训练与未见的管状参考轨迹上均显著降低位置与航向跟踪误差。结果表明,MANTA是一种结构清晰、数据高效的框架,适用于洞穴、管道及复杂海底结构中的安全自主水下干预。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
This paper addresses autonomous intervention with an underwater vehicle--manipulator system (UVMS) in confined, cluttered, and partially known environments, where poor maneuverability, narrow passages, and uncertain execution may cause the robot to enter unrecoverable regions. We propose MANTA, a three-layer hierarchical planning-and-control framework that couples passage accessibility, manipulation feasibility, and closed-loop execution. The first layer performs global connectivity reasoning in a conservative reduced base space to extract traversable corridor candidates toward the task region. The second layer refines each candidate corridor by jointly optimizing the continuous base motion and arm trajectory, producing a collision-free base--arm trajectory. The third layer learns a reach-and-hold base policy using Gaussian-process model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) through MC-PILCO, enabling trajectory tracking and station keeping at the planned manipulation state. During execution, the framework monitors map updates and can trigger recovery and route repair when the active passage becomes infeasible. MANTA is evaluated in confined UVMS planning and closed-loop tracking experiments. Across 120 matched planning queries, it achieves higher task success than full-state sampling-based baselines while producing larger clearance margins and lower arm motion. The learned MC-PILCO policy further reduces position and yaw tracking errors on both training and unseen tube-like references. These results show MANTA as a structured and data-efficient framework for safe autonomous underwater intervention in caves, tubes, and cluttered subsea structures.
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