多机器人气体源定位无需传感器校准,靠相对观测实现精准协同
Probabilistic Multi-Robot Gas Source Localization with Uncalibrated Sensors: A Distributed Estimation Approach

- 每机用秩特征提取相对观测变化,免受传感器差异影响
- 分布式融合本地信念,实现跨团队一致的源定位结果
- 动态规划探索区域,减少重复搜索,兼顾探索与利用
在多机器人系统中,当各机器人搭载未校准、异构传感器时,其非线性且不一致的响应会导致信息融合不可靠。本文提出一种分布式概率框架,实现传感器异构条件下的免校准源定位。核心思想是:每个机器人独立使用基于秩的特征,捕捉观测值的相对演化,该特征对传感器缩放和非线性具有不变性。随后通过专家乘积(product of experts)方式融合各机器人的局部信念,获得团队一致的全局估计。为提升团队协作效率,引入信息区域分配与路径规划策略,降低冗余探索,平衡探索与利用。在高保真仿真中使用真实气体传感器模型验证,结果表明,本方法显著优于基于标准测量聚合的基准方法,在强传感器异构条件下仍能实现可靠源定位。更广泛地,该工作展示了免校准感知表示可有效拓展至分布式机器人系统,为其他涉及异构传感器的估计任务提供可行路径。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Estimating environmental states with multi-robot systems becomes particularly challenging when robots are equipped with uncalibrated and therefore heterogeneous sensors, whose nonlinear and inconsistent responses prevent reliable information fusion. In this paper, we propose a distributed probabilistic framework for source localization tasks that enables calibration-free estimation in the presence of sensor heterogeneity. The key idea is that each robot independently estimates a local belief using a rank-based feature that captures the relative evolution of observations and is invariant to sensor scaling and nonlinearities. These local beliefs are then fused through a product of experts formulation to obtain a consistent global estimate across the team. To further improve the efficiency of team coordination, we introduce an informative region allocation and path planning strategy that reduces redundant exploration while balancing exploration and exploitation. We validate the proposed framework using high-fidelity simulations with realistic gas sensor models. Results demonstrate that our method significantly outperforms a benchmark method based on standard measurement aggregation, achieving reliable source localization accuracy despite strong sensor heterogeneity. More broadly, this work demonstrates how calibration-free sensing representations can be effectively extended to distributed robotic systems, paving the way for their application to other estimation tasks involving heterogeneous sensors.
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