提出分段引导的探索框架,让机器人在复杂地形中又快又安全地自主探索。
TASG-Explore: Traversability-Aware Sector-Guided Exploration for Ground Robot on Uneven Terrain

- 分层可通行性分析+分段规划,兼顾效率与安全
- 处理速度提升6.3倍,崎岖地形覆盖率提高2.95倍
- 适合野外勘探、救援等复杂地形自主导航场景
在不平坦地形上实现自主探索需平衡探索效率、覆盖完整性和地形安全性。详细地形推理虽提升局部可靠性,但会降低大规模探索速度;粗略区域引导虽能在开阔区快速推进,却易遗漏狭窄通道和不规则通行边界。为此,本文提出TASG-Explore框架,通过可通行性感知的分段引导探索机制,首先采用变体素地面拟合与自适应8位障碍编码进行分层可通行性分析,再将代价地图划分为扇区,增量更新扇区簇,提取地形耦合的前沿视点,并维护带有未知拓扑假设的动态拓扑路网。最后,分段引导规划器选择区域目标并插入局部视点,生成高效探索路径。在洞穴、森林和崎岖山地等多种挑战性环境中的基准实验表明,TASG-Explore在六种先进规划器中表现最优。所提可通行性分析使处理效率提升6.3倍,同时保持高精度;探索规划器在崎岖山地场景下探索效率提升51%,覆盖率最高达2.95倍。大规模真实世界实验进一步验证了该方法的实用性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Autonomous exploration on uneven terrain requires ground robots to balance exploration efficiency, coverage completeness, and terrain safety. Detailed tsrrain reasoning improves local reliability but can slow large-scale exploration, whereas coarse region guidance expands quickly in open areas but can miss narrow passages and irregular traversable boundaries. To address this challenge, this paper presents TASG-Explore, a traversability-aware sector-guided exploration framework for ground robots. The framework first performs hierarchical traversability analysis using variable-voxel ground fitting and adaptive 8-bit obstacle encoding. It then splitting cost map into sectors, incrementally updates sector clusters, extracts terrain-coupled frontier viewpoints, and maintains a dynamic topological roadmap with unknown topological hypotheses. Finally, a sector-guided planner selects region targets and inserts local viewpoints to generate efficient exploration routes. Benchmark experiments in diverse challenging environments, including caves, forests, and rugged hills, show that TASG-Explore achieves the best overall performance among six representative state-of-the-art planners. The proposed traversability analysis improves processing efficiency by 6.3 times while maintaining high accuracy, and the exploration planner improves exploration efficiency by 51% and increases coverage by up to 2.95 times in rugged hill scene. Large-scale real-world experiments further demonstrate the practical value of the proposed method.
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