不確実性が引き金となる空中支援要請:オフロード走行のための適応的精緻化
When to Ask for Help: Uncertainty-Triggered Aerial Refinement for Off-Road Navigation
地上車両のMPPI計画の不確実性を評価し、空中観測で解消すると走行改善が見込める場合のみUAVに支援を要請する手法を提案。シミュレーションで98.9%の到達率を保ちつつUAV飛行時間を87.7%削減した。
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著者: Pranay Samineni, Adam Thorpe, John Chubick, Anand Balakrishnan, Christian Ellis, Swarat Chaudhuri, Ufuk Topcu
分類: cs.RO, eess.SY
原文アブストラクト
Heterogeneous air-ground teams can use aerial sensing to address the limited range and viewpoint of ground-vehicle sensors, but deciding when the UGV needs assistance and what information the UAV should collect remains a challenge. This paper presents a planner-conditioned air-ground assistance method that evaluates how uncertain map information affects the UGV's current MPPI rollouts. When navigation remains degraded, we score the same rollouts under resolved map hypotheses, select the map layer with the largest useful improvement, request the corresponding aerial measurement, fuse the returned information, and replan. Unlike approaches driven by fixed support roles, task structure, or uncertainty alone, our method conditions assistance on whether resolving uncertainty improves predicted ground navigation. Across 180 simulation trials on three off-road routes, the method achieves 98.9% goal attainment while reducing mean UAV flight time by 87.7% relative to continuous greedy aerial mapping. Aggregated across the routes, each second of estimated UAV flight time saves 2.94 s of UGV navigation time. Field experiments spanning approximately 2 km of UGV operation demonstrate uncertainty resolution and successful navigation recovery.