脚式ロボットのための安全を考慮した情報獲得型運動計画
Toward Safety-Aware Informative Motion Planning for Legged Robots
脚式ロボット向けに、確率マップ上の情報獲得とCBFによる安全制約を統合し、MPCで閉ループ的にノード拡張するSAFE-IIGを提案した論文。
著者: Sangli Teng, Yukai Gong, Jessy W. Grizzle, Maani Ghaffari
分類: cs.RO
原文アブストラクト
This paper reports on developing an integrated framework for safety-aware informative motion planning suitable for legged robots. The information-gathering planner takes a dense stochastic map of the environment into account, while safety constraints are enforced via Control Barrier Functions (CBFs). The planner is based on the Incrementally-exploring Information Gathering (IIG) algorithm and allows closed-loop kinodynamic node expansion using a Model Predictive Control (MPC) formalism. Robotic exploration and information gathering problems are inherently path-dependent problems. That is, the information collected along a path depends on the state and observation history. As such, motion planning solely based on a modular cost does not lead to suitable plans for exploration. We propose SAFE-IIG, an integrated informative motion planning algorithm that takes into account: 1) a robot's perceptual field of view via a submodular information function computed over a stochastic map of the environment, 2) a robot's dynamics and safety constraints via discrete-time CBFs and MPC for closed-loop multi-horizon node expansions, and 3) an automatic stopping criterion via setting an information-theoretic planning horizon. The simulation results show that SAFE-IIG can plan a safe and dynamically feasible path while exploring a dense map.
