ガウス過程による情報獲得型経路計画:誤差限界・アルゴリズム・ベンチマーク
Informative Path Planning with Gaussian Processes: Error Bounds, Algorithms, and Benchmarks
ガウス過程を用いた情報獲得型経路計画について、予測分散が理論的に最適な目的関数であることを示し、GreedyCoverの近似保証が問題の理論限界に一致することを証明した上で、ベンチマークで優位性を確認した理論解析論文。
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著者: Kalvik Jakkala, Jennifer Wakulicz, Donald G. Dansereau, Srinivas Akella, Lantao Liu, Jason M. O'Kane
分類: cs.RO
原文アブストラクト
Accurate environmental monitoring relies on Informative Path Planning (IPP) to deploy autonomous systems that maximize information gain. While Gaussian Processes (GPs) provide a robust mathematical foundation for modeling the environment, contemporary IPP approaches remain hindered by heuristic operational constraints and the lack of simultaneous theoretical guarantees for worst-case estimation error and approximation quality. Rather than introducing yet another heuristic, this paper presents a rigorous theoretical analysis of existing error bounds and algorithms to further develop the mathematical foundation for IPP. By evaluating probabilistic and deterministic bounds on reconstruction error, we establish that predictive variance is the theoretically ideal optimization objective for GP-based IPP. Furthermore, we analyze GreedyCover, a recent approach for optimizing predictive variance, and demonstrate that its near-optimal approximation guarantee matches the fundamental hardness-of-approximation limit for the problem. Comprehensive benchmarking confirms that this approach delivers superior estimation accuracy and computational efficiency compared to prominent information-theoretic objectives and optimization methods used in IPP. Finally, this theoretical analysis establishes a rigorous, near-optimal foundation for discrete offline IPP under bounded uncertainty constraints, offering clear and principled guidance for future work in continuous-space and online formulations.