arXiv:2608.16442cs.RO2026-08

让机器人自动找到最佳视角,精准检查圆柱形孔洞底部。

Observation-Constrained Joint-Space Viewpoint Optimization for Robotic Inspection of Cylindrical Cavities

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  • 用关节空间优化视角,兼顾可见性与机械臂运动安全。
  • 92%任务成功,底部可见度达91.65%,优于传统方法。
  • 适合工业巡检、救援机器人等需要精准观测的场景。

巡检是移动机器人在工业监测、基础设施维护、农业及搜救等应用中的核心能力。根据ASTM搜救任务基准要求,观察圆柱形腔体底部是一项典型挑战:机器人需在满足可视性、运动学和避障约束的前提下精确定位相机。本文提出一种完全自主的圆柱腔体观测约束联合空间视角优化方法。不固定单一笛卡尔相机位姿,而是将巡检目标表示为一组有效观测几何,避免因关节极限裕度不足而舍弃可到达的视角配置。基于RGB感知前端,通过弧支撑椭圆拟合结合体部与侧边生成线索,从语义掩码中估计开口中心和定向腔体轴线,进而参数化相机轴对齐、侧向偏移和轴向距离约束。采用多起点无导数搜索,在约束满足优先级下优化机器人关节配置;可行解按运动经济性、关节极限裕度和视图质量排序。最终候选方案由避碰运动规划器评估,执行的相机位姿经几何验证和基于射线的底部可见性估算确认。在Isaac Sim中,该方法成功完成100次目标配置中的92次,执行试验平均底部可见度达91.65%,优于多起点坐标搜索基线(76/100,84.3%)。桌面实验与Unitree A2机器人搭载测试验证了完整感知-规划-执行流程。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Inspection is a core capability in many mobile robotics applications, including industrial facility monitoring, infrastructure maintenance, agriculture, and search and rescue. Observing the bottom of a cylindrical cavity, as required by ASTM search-task benchmarks for response robots, presents a representative challenge: the robot must position its camera precisely while satisfying visibility, kinematic, and collision constraints. This paper presents a fully autonomous method for observation-constrained inspection of cylindrical cavities in robot joint space. Rather than prescribing a single Cartesian camera pose, the method represents the inspection objective as a set of valid viewing geometries, thereby avoiding the rejection of reachable viewpoints and configurations with poor joint-limit margins. An RGB perception front end estimates the opening center and directed cavity axis from semantic masks using arc-supported ellipse fitting together with body and side-generator cues. These estimates parameterize constraints on camera-axis alignment, lateral offset, and axial standoff. A multistart derivative-free search then optimizes robot joint configurations with lexicographic priority given to constraint satisfaction; feasible configurations are ranked according to motion economy, joint-limit margin, and view quality. The resulting candidates are evaluated by a collision-aware motion planner, and the executed camera pose is verified geometrically and using a ray-based estimate of bottom visibility. In Isaac Sim, the proposed method successfully completes 92 of 100 target configurations and attains 91.65% mean bottom visibility among executed trials, compared with 76 of 100 and 84.3% for a multistart coordinate-search baseline. Tabletop and Unitree A2-mounted experiments demonstrate the complete perception-planning-execution pipeline.

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