森林環境のための走行可能領域を考慮したVLM駆動型リアクティブナビゲーション
TRACE: Traversability-aware Reactive Navigation via VLM-driven Adaptive Constraints Estimation
VLMの信頼度マップを証拠融合して走行可能領域を推定し、その境界をNMPCのソフト制約として組み込むことで、非構造な森林環境での安全な適応的ナビゲーションを実現した。
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著者: Mario A. V. Saucedo, Midhun Edatharam Kunnath, Elias Small, Akash Patel, Shruti Kotpalliwar, Christoforos Kanellakis, George Nikolakopoulos
分類: cs.RO
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This paper presents TRACE, a traversability-aware reactive navigation framework designed for the autonomous operation of ground robots in unstructured forest environments. Unlike traditional approaches, TRACE leverages VLM-based confidence maps from positive and negative natural-language prompt sets and combines them through evidential fusion to produce a dense traversability map that prioritizes the terrain based on signs of previously traversed paths. Traversability-annotated points are then extracted and used to derive the left and right boundaries of the traversable path via percentile binning followed by spline or regularized polynomial fitting. These boundaries are then incorporated as soft barrier constraints within an NMPC formulation, enabling safe and adaptive path following in complex natural environments. Rigorous experimental trials carried out in real-life forest environments demonstrate TRACE ability for smooth navigation in cluttered, deformable, and visually ambiguous terrains.