OPAL: 全方位経路効率的な空中3次元探索
OPAL: Omnidirectional Path-efficient Aerial 3D expLoration
分岐点での360度ヨー回転を活用し、計算負荷を抑えつつ移動距離を短縮する空中ロボットの自律探索フレームワークを提案した。
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著者: Yoga Satwik Chappidi, Avideh Zakhor
分類: cs.RO
原文アブストラクト
Autonomous exploration is critical for robot mapping unknown environments. Desirable characteristics of exploration algorithms include compute efficiency and small traversed distance during the exploration process. Motivated by these, we present Omnidirectional Path-efficient Aerial 3D expLoration (OPAL), an exploration framework centered on deliberate 360-degree yaw rotation at ambiguous branch points rather than compute-heavy global tour planning. We devise multiple variants of OPAL to determine the frontier-selection strategy once the yaw pan is completed. One variant is model-free, while others use large language models (LLMs) or vision-language models (VLMs). We characterize the performance of these variants while varying the vicinity search radius to include frontiers in the selection process. Through simulations we find that although the time-consuming in-place yaw rotation increases total exploration time relative to more computationally complex baselines such as EDEN and FALCON, OPAL is computationally simpler and achieves shorter travel distances and higher coverage-versus-distance area under the curve. We also show that adjusting the frontier-selection search radius enables a tradeoff between travel distance and total exploration time. We verify our results on a Modal AI drone in two indoor environments by comparing OPAL against FALCON, and find that the traveled distance for a variant of OPAL to be as much as 25% lower than FALCON.
