生物に着想を得たイベントベース視覚サーボによる地上ロボット制御
Bio-Inspired Event-Based Visual Servoing for Ground Robots
イベントカメラを用いて、構造化環境下で地上ロボットの運動状態を直接推定せずに非線形フィードバック制御を実現する生物模倣型視覚サーボ手法を提案し、実機実験で有効性を示した。
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著者: Maral Mordad, Kian Behzad, Debojyoti Biswas, Noah J. Cowan, Milad Siami
分類: cs.RO, cs.CV
原文アブストラクト
Biological sensory systems are inherently adaptive, filtering out constant stimuli and prioritizing relative changes, likely enhancing computational and metabolic efficiency. Inspired by active sensing behaviors across a wide range of animals, this paper introduces a principled 1D event-based visual servoing framework for ground robots operating in structured environments. Utilizing a Dynamic Vision Sensor (DVS), we demonstrate that by applying a fixed spatial kernel to the asynchronous event stream generated from structured logarithmic intensity-change patterns, the resulting net event flux analytically isolates specific combinations of kinematic states. We establish a generalized theoretical bound for this event rate estimator and show that linear and quadratic spatial profiles isolate the robot's velocity and position-velocity product, respectively. Leveraging these properties, we employ a multi-pattern stimulus to directly synthesize a nonlinear state feedback term entirely without traditional state estimation. To overcome the inescapable loss of linear observability at equilibrium inherent in event sensing, we propose a bio-inspired active sensing limit-cycle controller. Experimental validation on a 1/10-scale autonomous ground vehicle confirms the efficacy, extreme low-latency, and computational efficiency of the proposed direct-sensing approach.
