arXiv:2609.05331cs.ROcs.SE2026-09

分析行为树在机器人自适应中的局限,提出增强方案与适用场景。

Adaptation Needs in Robotic Systems: Assessing Behavior Trees and Their Enhancement

  • 从六类需求出发,系统梳理行为树的适应能力
  • 发现经典行为树难以支持运行时重构与不确定性推理
  • 分类四种增强方法,指导实际应用选型

机器人系统在动态、不确定环境中运行时,设计阶段假设可能失效,自适应成为必要。行为树(BTs)因模块化、可读性和反应性被广泛用于机器人控制架构。本文通过文献研究与实证分析,从文献中提炼出六类自适应需求:知识、感知、执行、系统、任务与环境。分析经典行为树在这些需求下的能力与局限,归纳现有基于行为树的自适应方法为四类:生成、扩展、演化与精炼,并包含多类组合方法。结果表明,经典行为树在运行时重构、不确定性推理、任务重释、学习及外部知识融合方面能力不足。增强型行为树虽部分弥补缺陷,但各有局限。研究揭示了自适应需求与行为树能力之间的对应关系,为判断何时使用经典行为树或需引入增强机制提供了依据,并指出了未来自适应控制架构仍需解决的关键挑战。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Robotic systems increasingly operate in dynamic, uncertain, and open-ended environments, where design-time assumptions may no longer hold, and adaptation becomes necessary to maintain effective and safe operation. Behavior Trees (BTs) are widely used in robotic control architectures due to their modularity, readability, and reactivity. This raises a central question: are BTs sufficient to meet the adaptation needs of modern robotic systems? This paper investigates this question through a literature-driven study complemented by empirical validation. First, we derive a classification of robotic adaptation needs from the literature, organizing them into six categories: Knowledge, Perception, Actuation, System, Mission, and Environment. Then, we analyze the capabilities and limitations of classical BTs with respect to these needs. Then, we characterize BT-based approaches for adaptation from the existing literature and organize them into four primary families, i.e., generation, extension, evolution, and refinement, including approaches that combine multiple families. Our analysis shows that the modularity, flexibility, and reactivity of classical BTs are insufficient for adaptation needs involving runtime restructuring, reasoning under uncertainty, mission reinterpretation, learning, or integration with external knowledge and planning mechanisms. Enhanced BT approaches address several of these limitations, but to different extents and often with limitations of their own. Our findings relate adaptation needs to both the capabilities and limitations of classical and enhanced BTs, providing guidance on when classical BTs are sufficient, when enhanced mechanisms are needed, and which challenges remain or emerge for adaptive robotic control architectures.

行为树机器人自适应控制架构

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