Intent Prediction-Driven Model Predictive Control for UAV Planning and Navigation in Dynamic Environments

Fuente: arXiv
Enregistré dans:
Détails bibliographiques
Auteurs principaux: Xu, Zhefan, Jin, Hanyu, Han, Xinming, Shen, Haoyu, Shimada, Kenji
Format: Preprint
Publié: 2024
Sujets:
Accès en ligne:
Tags: Ajouter un tag
Pas de tags, Soyez le premier à ajouter un tag!
_version_ 1866908278831710208
author Xu, Zhefan
Jin, Hanyu
Han, Xinming
Shen, Haoyu
Shimada, Kenji
author_facet Xu, Zhefan
Jin, Hanyu
Han, Xinming
Shen, Haoyu
Shimada, Kenji
contents Aerial robots can enhance construction site productivity by autonomously handling inspection and mapping tasks. However, ensuring safe navigation near human workers remains challenging. While navigation in static environments has been well studied, navigating dynamic environments remains open due to challenges in perception and planning. Payload limitations restrict the robots to using cameras with limited fields of view, resulting in unreliable perception and tracking during collision avoidance. Moreover, the rapidly changing conditions of dynamic environments can quickly make the generated optimal trajectory outdated.To address these challenges, this paper presents a comprehensive navigation framework that integrates perception, intent prediction, and planning. Our perception module detects and tracks dynamic obstacles efficiently and handles tracking loss and occlusion during collision avoidance. The proposed intent prediction module employs a Markov Decision Process (MDP) to forecast potential actions of dynamic obstacles with the possible future trajectories. Finally, a novel intent-based planning algorithm, leveraging model predictive control (MPC), is applied to generate navigation trajectories. Simulation and physical experiments demonstrate that our method improves the safety of navigation by achieving the fewest collisions compared to benchmarks.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2409_15633
institution arXiv
publishDate 2024
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Intent Prediction-Driven Model Predictive Control for UAV Planning and Navigation in Dynamic Environments
Xu, Zhefan
Jin, Hanyu
Han, Xinming
Shen, Haoyu
Shimada, Kenji
Robotics
Aerial robots can enhance construction site productivity by autonomously handling inspection and mapping tasks. However, ensuring safe navigation near human workers remains challenging. While navigation in static environments has been well studied, navigating dynamic environments remains open due to challenges in perception and planning. Payload limitations restrict the robots to using cameras with limited fields of view, resulting in unreliable perception and tracking during collision avoidance. Moreover, the rapidly changing conditions of dynamic environments can quickly make the generated optimal trajectory outdated.To address these challenges, this paper presents a comprehensive navigation framework that integrates perception, intent prediction, and planning. Our perception module detects and tracks dynamic obstacles efficiently and handles tracking loss and occlusion during collision avoidance. The proposed intent prediction module employs a Markov Decision Process (MDP) to forecast potential actions of dynamic obstacles with the possible future trajectories. Finally, a novel intent-based planning algorithm, leveraging model predictive control (MPC), is applied to generate navigation trajectories. Simulation and physical experiments demonstrate that our method improves the safety of navigation by achieving the fewest collisions compared to benchmarks.
title Intent Prediction-Driven Model Predictive Control for UAV Planning and Navigation in Dynamic Environments
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.15633