SOAR: Simultaneous Exploration and Photographing with Heterogeneous UAVs for Fast Autonomous Reconstruction

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Autori principali: Zhang, Mingjie, Feng, Chen, Li, Zengzhi, Zheng, Guiyong, Luo, Yiming, Wang, Zhu, Zhou, Jinni, Shen, Shaojie, Zhou, Boyu
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author Zhang, Mingjie
Feng, Chen
Li, Zengzhi
Zheng, Guiyong
Luo, Yiming
Wang, Zhu
Zhou, Jinni
Shen, Shaojie
Zhou, Boyu
author_facet Zhang, Mingjie
Feng, Chen
Li, Zengzhi
Zheng, Guiyong
Luo, Yiming
Wang, Zhu
Zhou, Jinni
Shen, Shaojie
Zhou, Boyu
contents Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have gained significant popularity in scene reconstruction. This paper presents SOAR, a LiDAR-Visual heterogeneous multi-UAV system specifically designed for fast autonomous reconstruction of complex environments. Our system comprises a LiDAR-equipped explorer with a large field-of-view (FoV), alongside photographers equipped with cameras. To ensure rapid acquisition of the scene's surface geometry, we employ a surface frontier-based exploration strategy for the explorer. As the surface is progressively explored, we identify the uncovered areas and generate viewpoints incrementally. These viewpoints are then assigned to photographers through solving a Consistent Multiple Depot Multiple Traveling Salesman Problem (Consistent-MDMTSP), which optimizes scanning efficiency while ensuring task consistency. Finally, photographers utilize the assigned viewpoints to determine optimal coverage paths for acquiring images. We present extensive benchmarks in the realistic simulator, which validates the performance of SOAR compared with classical and state-of-the-art methods. For more details, please see our project page at https://sysu-star.github.io/SOAR}{sysu-star.github.io/SOAR.
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spellingShingle SOAR: Simultaneous Exploration and Photographing with Heterogeneous UAVs for Fast Autonomous Reconstruction
Zhang, Mingjie
Feng, Chen
Li, Zengzhi
Zheng, Guiyong
Luo, Yiming
Wang, Zhu
Zhou, Jinni
Shen, Shaojie
Zhou, Boyu
Robotics
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have gained significant popularity in scene reconstruction. This paper presents SOAR, a LiDAR-Visual heterogeneous multi-UAV system specifically designed for fast autonomous reconstruction of complex environments. Our system comprises a LiDAR-equipped explorer with a large field-of-view (FoV), alongside photographers equipped with cameras. To ensure rapid acquisition of the scene's surface geometry, we employ a surface frontier-based exploration strategy for the explorer. As the surface is progressively explored, we identify the uncovered areas and generate viewpoints incrementally. These viewpoints are then assigned to photographers through solving a Consistent Multiple Depot Multiple Traveling Salesman Problem (Consistent-MDMTSP), which optimizes scanning efficiency while ensuring task consistency. Finally, photographers utilize the assigned viewpoints to determine optimal coverage paths for acquiring images. We present extensive benchmarks in the realistic simulator, which validates the performance of SOAR compared with classical and state-of-the-art methods. For more details, please see our project page at https://sysu-star.github.io/SOAR}{sysu-star.github.io/SOAR.
title SOAR: Simultaneous Exploration and Photographing with Heterogeneous UAVs for Fast Autonomous Reconstruction
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.02738