Occupation-aware planning method for robotic monitoring missions in dynamic environments

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Hauptverfasser: Marchukov, Yaroslav, Montano, Luis
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author Marchukov, Yaroslav
Montano, Luis
author_facet Marchukov, Yaroslav
Montano, Luis
contents This paper presents a method for robotic monitoring missions in the presence of moving obstacles. Although the scenario map is known, the robot lacks information about the movement of dynamic obstacles during the monitoring mission. Numerous local planners have been developed in recent years for navigating highly dynamic environments. However, the absence of a global planner for these environments can result in unavoidable collisions or the inability to successfully complete missions in densely populated areas, such as a scenario monitoring in our case. This work addresses the development and evaluation of a global planner, $MADA$ (Monitoring Avoiding Dynamic Areas), aimed at enhancing the deployment of robots in such challenging conditions. The robot plans and executes the mission using the proposed two-step approach. The first step involves selecting the observation goal based on the environment's distribution and estimated monitoring costs. In the second step, the robot identifies areas with moving obstacles and obtains paths avoiding densely occupied dynamic regions based on their occupation. Quantitative and qualitative results based on simulations and on real-world experimentation, confirm that the proposed method allows the robot to effectively monitor most of the environment while avoiding densely occupied dynamic areas.
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spellingShingle Occupation-aware planning method for robotic monitoring missions in dynamic environments
Marchukov, Yaroslav
Montano, Luis
Robotics
This paper presents a method for robotic monitoring missions in the presence of moving obstacles. Although the scenario map is known, the robot lacks information about the movement of dynamic obstacles during the monitoring mission. Numerous local planners have been developed in recent years for navigating highly dynamic environments. However, the absence of a global planner for these environments can result in unavoidable collisions or the inability to successfully complete missions in densely populated areas, such as a scenario monitoring in our case. This work addresses the development and evaluation of a global planner, $MADA$ (Monitoring Avoiding Dynamic Areas), aimed at enhancing the deployment of robots in such challenging conditions. The robot plans and executes the mission using the proposed two-step approach. The first step involves selecting the observation goal based on the environment's distribution and estimated monitoring costs. In the second step, the robot identifies areas with moving obstacles and obtains paths avoiding densely occupied dynamic regions based on their occupation. Quantitative and qualitative results based on simulations and on real-world experimentation, confirm that the proposed method allows the robot to effectively monitor most of the environment while avoiding densely occupied dynamic areas.
title Occupation-aware planning method for robotic monitoring missions in dynamic environments
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.00846