Air-FAR: Fast and Adaptable Routing for Aerial Navigation in Large-scale Complex Unknown Environments

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Main Authors: He, Botao, Chen, Guofei, Fermuller, Cornelia, Aloimonos, Yiannis, Zhang, Ji
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Published: 2024
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author He, Botao
Chen, Guofei
Fermuller, Cornelia
Aloimonos, Yiannis
Zhang, Ji
author_facet He, Botao
Chen, Guofei
Fermuller, Cornelia
Aloimonos, Yiannis
Zhang, Ji
contents This paper presents a novel method for real-time 3D navigation in large-scale, complex environments using a hierarchical 3D visibility graph (V-graph). The proposed algorithm addresses the computational challenges of V-graph construction and shortest path search on the graph simultaneously. By introducing hierarchical 3D V-graph construction with heuristic visibility update, the 3D V-graph is constructed in O(K*n^2logn) time, which guarantees real-time performance. The proposed iterative divide-and-conquer path search method can achieve near-optimal path solutions within the constraints of real-time operations. The algorithm ensures efficient 3D V-graph construction and path search. Extensive simulated and real-world environments validated that our algorithm reduces the travel time by 42%, achieves up to 24.8% higher trajectory efficiency, and runs faster than most benchmarks by orders of magnitude in complex environments. The code and developed simulator have been open-sourced to facilitate future research.
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spellingShingle Air-FAR: Fast and Adaptable Routing for Aerial Navigation in Large-scale Complex Unknown Environments
He, Botao
Chen, Guofei
Fermuller, Cornelia
Aloimonos, Yiannis
Zhang, Ji
Robotics
This paper presents a novel method for real-time 3D navigation in large-scale, complex environments using a hierarchical 3D visibility graph (V-graph). The proposed algorithm addresses the computational challenges of V-graph construction and shortest path search on the graph simultaneously. By introducing hierarchical 3D V-graph construction with heuristic visibility update, the 3D V-graph is constructed in O(K*n^2logn) time, which guarantees real-time performance. The proposed iterative divide-and-conquer path search method can achieve near-optimal path solutions within the constraints of real-time operations. The algorithm ensures efficient 3D V-graph construction and path search. Extensive simulated and real-world environments validated that our algorithm reduces the travel time by 42%, achieves up to 24.8% higher trajectory efficiency, and runs faster than most benchmarks by orders of magnitude in complex environments. The code and developed simulator have been open-sourced to facilitate future research.
title Air-FAR: Fast and Adaptable Routing for Aerial Navigation in Large-scale Complex Unknown Environments
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.11188