VertiAKD: 垂直に困難な地形における適応型オフロード運動力学
VertiAKD: Adaptive Off-Road Kinodynamics on Vertically Challenging Terrain
異なる車両と未知の地形に対して、限られたデータから運動力学モデルを転移・適応させる統一フレームワークを提案し、予測誤差を大幅に削減した。
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著者: Tong Xu, Chenhui Pan, Francesco Cancelliere, Xuesu Xiao
分類: cs.RO
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Off-road mobility requires autonomous mobile robots to generalize across heterogeneous vehicle fleets and continuously changing terrain conditions. Existing cross-vehicle adaptation approaches generally assume flat terrain, while terrain-aware kinodynamic models often require platform-specific data collection and retraining. To this end, we propose VertiAKD, a unified framework for transferring and adapting off-road kinodynamic knowledge across diverse vehicles on geometrically and semantically complex terrain simultaneously. VertiAKD learns a shared mobility representation that jointly encodes vehicle configurations, trajectory transitions, and local elevation and semantic terrain features. Given limited data from a novel vehicle operating on unseen terrain, VertiAKD identifies the most relevant mobility descriptors and transfers their knowledge to initialize a terrain-aware kinodynamic model via function encoders, which is then periodically refined online from streaming observations without gradient-based retraining. We evaluate VertiAKD in the Verti-Bench simulator, built on the Chrono multi-physics engine, and on five physical configurations of the Verti-4-Wheeler platform. With only one minute of new trajectory data and associated terrain features, VertiAKD reduces long-horizon prediction error by up to 34.52% over direct mobility descriptor transfer across diverse unseen vehicle configurations and 94.43% over competing baselines. We further demonstrate robust closed-loop trajectory tracking in both simulation and physical experiments, highlighting the effectiveness of terrain-aware cross-vehicle knowledge transfer for accurate modeling and reliable off-road navigation.
