自监督路径规划框架,兼顾障碍物避让与路径平滑性。
VikPath: A Vision Kansformer Framework for Effective Obstacle Avoidance in Self-Supervised Pathfinding

- 用视觉感知的Kansformer模块无监督学习障碍分布
- 比当前最优方法平均多出3.28%的避障距离,推理延迟降低87.07%
- 适合需要安全、平滑路径的自动驾驶等真实场景
路径规划是人工智能与自主系统中的基础问题。传统启发式算法(如A*)依赖预设启发函数,在复杂障碍环境中效率下降明显。现有学习方法多采用监督学习,依赖传统规划器生成标签或人工标注,性能受制于标注质量。同时,多数方法仅优化路径长度,忽视障碍物间距与轨迹平滑性,导致实际执行困难。为此,我们提出VikPath,一种自监督路径规划框架,联合优化障碍物接近度与路径平滑性。核心是创新的视觉Kansformer模块,无需标注轨迹即可学习障碍分布表征,增强对复杂环境的适应能力。此外引入尖角惩罚机制,鼓励生成更平滑、可执行的路径。大量实验表明,相比最先进方法,VikPath平均实现3.28%更高的障碍物避让距离,推理延迟降低87.07%,且保持路径平滑性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Pathfinding is a fundamental problem in artificial intelligence and autonomous systems. Traditional heuristic-based algorithms, such as A*, rely on predefined heuristic functions to guide the search process. Although effective in structured environments, their search efficiency can degrade substantially in complex, obstacle-rich scenarios, where handcrafted heuristics may provide limited guidance. Recent studies have explored learning-based approaches to improve pathfinding efficiency; however, most existing methods rely on supervised learning and require labels generated by conventional planners or obtained through manual annotation. As a result, their performance is inherently influenced by the quality of the underlying supervision and may degrade when the labeling heuristics fail to capture complex environmental structures. Moreover, existing methods primarily optimize for path length while paying limited attention to obstacle clearance and trajectory smoothness, which can lead to paths that are difficult or unsafe to execute in real-world environments. To address these limitations, we propose $\Design$, a self-supervised pathfinding framework that jointly considers obstacle proximity and path smoothness. At its core, our novel \textit{Vision Kansformer} module learns representations of obstacle distributions without relying on labeled trajectories, enabling the model to better adapt to complex environments. We further introduce a sharp-turn penalty to encourage smoother and more practically executable paths. Extensive experiments demonstrate that, compared with state-of-the-art (SOTA) approaches, $\Design$ achieves an average of 3.28\% greater obstacle clearance and 87.07\% lower inference latency while maintaining smooth path generation.
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