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Auteurs principaux: Hossain, Jumman, Faridee, Abu-Zaher, Roy, Nirmalya, Freeman, Jade, Gregory, Timothy, Trout, Theron T.
Format: Preprint
Publié: 2024
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Accès en ligne:https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.20016
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author Hossain, Jumman
Faridee, Abu-Zaher
Roy, Nirmalya
Freeman, Jade
Gregory, Timothy
Trout, Theron T.
author_facet Hossain, Jumman
Faridee, Abu-Zaher
Roy, Nirmalya
Freeman, Jade
Gregory, Timothy
Trout, Theron T.
contents Autonomous robots operating in complex environments face the critical challenge of identifying and utilizing environmental cover for covert navigation to minimize exposure to potential threats. We propose EnCoMP, an enhanced navigation framework that integrates offline reinforcement learning and our novel Adaptive Threat-Aware Visibility Estimation (ATAVE) algorithm to enable robots to navigate covertly and efficiently in diverse outdoor settings. ATAVE is a dynamic probabilistic threat modeling technique that we designed to continuously assess and mitigate potential threats in real-time, enhancing the robot's ability to navigate covertly by adapting to evolving environmental and threat conditions. Moreover, our approach generates high-fidelity multi-map representations, including cover maps, potential threat maps, height maps, and goal maps from LiDAR point clouds, providing a comprehensive understanding of the environment. These multi-maps offer detailed environmental insights, helping in strategic navigation decisions. The goal map encodes the relative distance and direction to the target location, guiding the robot's navigation. We train a Conservative Q-Learning (CQL) model on a large-scale dataset collected from real-world environments, learning a robust policy that maximizes cover utilization, minimizes threat exposure, and maintains efficient navigation. We demonstrate our method's capabilities on a physical Jackal robot, showing extensive experiments across diverse terrains. These experiments demonstrate EnCoMP's superior performance compared to state-of-the-art methods, achieving a 95% success rate, 85% cover utilization, and reducing threat exposure to 10.5%, while significantly outperforming baselines in navigation efficiency and robustness.
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spellingShingle EnCoMP: Enhanced Covert Maneuver Planning with Adaptive Threat-Aware Visibility Estimation using Offline Reinforcement Learning
Hossain, Jumman
Faridee, Abu-Zaher
Roy, Nirmalya
Freeman, Jade
Gregory, Timothy
Trout, Theron T.
Robotics
Machine Learning
Autonomous robots operating in complex environments face the critical challenge of identifying and utilizing environmental cover for covert navigation to minimize exposure to potential threats. We propose EnCoMP, an enhanced navigation framework that integrates offline reinforcement learning and our novel Adaptive Threat-Aware Visibility Estimation (ATAVE) algorithm to enable robots to navigate covertly and efficiently in diverse outdoor settings. ATAVE is a dynamic probabilistic threat modeling technique that we designed to continuously assess and mitigate potential threats in real-time, enhancing the robot's ability to navigate covertly by adapting to evolving environmental and threat conditions. Moreover, our approach generates high-fidelity multi-map representations, including cover maps, potential threat maps, height maps, and goal maps from LiDAR point clouds, providing a comprehensive understanding of the environment. These multi-maps offer detailed environmental insights, helping in strategic navigation decisions. The goal map encodes the relative distance and direction to the target location, guiding the robot's navigation. We train a Conservative Q-Learning (CQL) model on a large-scale dataset collected from real-world environments, learning a robust policy that maximizes cover utilization, minimizes threat exposure, and maintains efficient navigation. We demonstrate our method's capabilities on a physical Jackal robot, showing extensive experiments across diverse terrains. These experiments demonstrate EnCoMP's superior performance compared to state-of-the-art methods, achieving a 95% success rate, 85% cover utilization, and reducing threat exposure to 10.5%, while significantly outperforming baselines in navigation efficiency and robustness.
title EnCoMP: Enhanced Covert Maneuver Planning with Adaptive Threat-Aware Visibility Estimation using Offline Reinforcement Learning
topic Robotics
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.20016