空中母機への自律回収を実現するRTK-ビジョンPPO制御
RTK-Vision PPO for Autonomous Micro UAV Recovery on an Airborne Carrier
小型UAVが飛行中の母機から発進・帰還し再ドッキングする回収タスクに対し、RTKとマーカー検出を併用したPPO方策をMuJoCoで訓練し実機へ転移、99.55%の終端成功率を達成した。
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著者: Aashish Sahu, R Prasanth Kumar
分類: cs.RO
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Autonomous recovery of a micro unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) onto a moving airborne carrier enables reusable deploy-mission-recover operation, but couples long-range rendezvous, close-range perception, carrier motion, aerodynamic interaction, and a discontinuous contact event. This paper presents an RTK-vision-guided reinforcement-learning framework in which a child UAV is physically transported by a larger carrier, takes off from the carrier while airborne, executes an independent sortie, returns to the carrier's current position, redocks, and subsequently descends with the carrier. Both vehicles carry RTK-GNSS, and the carrier continuously shares its navigation state with the child. Near the recovery deck, RTK remains active while a downward-facing camera with a fiducial marker detector provides marker-relative alignment cues. A proximal policy optimization (PPO) policy governing the terminal recovery phase is trained in a physics-based MuJoCo simulation environment with explicit sensor noise models, an aerodynamic disturbance surrogate, and marker-latency randomization, then transferred to hardware. PX4 retains low-level stabilization, and a deterministic safety gate authorizes descent independently of the learned policy. The PPO checkpoint achieves 99.55% success over 2,000 held-out randomized terminal episodes, compared with 78.4% for a tuned PD baseline under identical conditions, with a median planar terminal error of 6.62 cm. Across 14 outdoor trials, the full mission succeeds in 13 trials (92.9%), spanning both near-region recovery and recovery after the carrier translates away from the release point. The results demonstrate a complete autonomous aerial deployment-and-recovery cycle rather than an isolated landing maneuver, establishing a practical basis for reusable carrier-child operation in inspection, surveillance, and mobile-logistics applications.
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