Multi-Robot Informative Path Planning from Regression with Sparse Gaussian Processes (with Appendix)

Fuente: arXiv
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jakkala, Kalvik, Akella, Srinivas
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
Subjects:
Online Access:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866917608841805824
author Jakkala, Kalvik
Akella, Srinivas
author_facet Jakkala, Kalvik
Akella, Srinivas
contents This paper addresses multi-robot informative path planning (IPP) for environmental monitoring. The problem involves determining informative regions in the environment that should be visited by robots to gather the most information about the environment. We propose an efficient sparse Gaussian process-based approach that uses gradient descent to optimize paths in continuous environments. Our approach efficiently scales to both spatially and spatio-temporally correlated environments. Moreover, our approach can simultaneously optimize the informative paths while accounting for routing constraints, such as a distance budget and limits on the robot's velocity and acceleration. Our approach can be used for IPP with both discrete and continuous sensing robots, with point and non-point field-of-view sensing shapes, and for both single and multi-robot IPP. We demonstrate that the proposed approach is fast and accurate on real-world data.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2309_07050
institution arXiv
publishDate 2023
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Multi-Robot Informative Path Planning from Regression with Sparse Gaussian Processes (with Appendix)
Jakkala, Kalvik
Akella, Srinivas
Robotics
This paper addresses multi-robot informative path planning (IPP) for environmental monitoring. The problem involves determining informative regions in the environment that should be visited by robots to gather the most information about the environment. We propose an efficient sparse Gaussian process-based approach that uses gradient descent to optimize paths in continuous environments. Our approach efficiently scales to both spatially and spatio-temporally correlated environments. Moreover, our approach can simultaneously optimize the informative paths while accounting for routing constraints, such as a distance budget and limits on the robot's velocity and acceleration. Our approach can be used for IPP with both discrete and continuous sensing robots, with point and non-point field-of-view sensing shapes, and for both single and multi-robot IPP. We demonstrate that the proposed approach is fast and accurate on real-world data.
title Multi-Robot Informative Path Planning from Regression with Sparse Gaussian Processes (with Appendix)
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.07050