HE-Nav: A High-Performance and Efficient Navigation System for Aerial-Ground Robots in Cluttered Environments
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| author | Wang, Junming Sun, Zekai Guan, Xiuxian Shen, Tianxiang Huang, Dong Zhang, Zongyuan Duan, Tianyang Liu, Fangming Cui, Heming |
| author_facet | Wang, Junming Sun, Zekai Guan, Xiuxian Shen, Tianxiang Huang, Dong Zhang, Zongyuan Duan, Tianyang Liu, Fangming Cui, Heming |
| contents | Existing AGR navigation systems have advanced in lightly occluded scenarios (e.g., buildings) by employing 3D semantic scene completion networks for voxel occupancy prediction and constructing Euclidean Signed Distance Field (ESDF) maps for collision-free path planning. However, these systems exhibit suboptimal performance and efficiency in cluttered environments with severe occlusions (e.g., dense forests or tall walls), due to limitations arising from perception networks' low prediction accuracy and path planners' high computational overhead. In this paper, we present HE-Nav, the first high-performance and efficient navigation system tailored for AGRs operating in cluttered environments. The perception module utilizes a lightweight semantic scene completion network (LBSCNet), guided by a bird's eye view (BEV) feature fusion and enhanced by an exquisitely designed SCB-Fusion module and attention mechanism. This enables real-time and efficient obstacle prediction in cluttered areas, generating a complete local map. Building upon this completed map, our novel AG-Planner employs the energy-efficient kinodynamic A* search algorithm to guarantee planning is energy-saving. Subsequent trajectory optimization processes yield safe, smooth, dynamically feasible and ESDF-free aerial-ground hybrid paths. Extensive experiments demonstrate that HE-Nav achieved 7x energy savings in real-world situations while maintaining planning success rates of 98% in simulation scenarios. Code and video are available on our project page: https://jmwang0117.github.io/HE-Nav/. |
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| spellingShingle | HE-Nav: A High-Performance and Efficient Navigation System for Aerial-Ground Robots in Cluttered Environments Wang, Junming Sun, Zekai Guan, Xiuxian Shen, Tianxiang Huang, Dong Zhang, Zongyuan Duan, Tianyang Liu, Fangming Cui, Heming Robotics Existing AGR navigation systems have advanced in lightly occluded scenarios (e.g., buildings) by employing 3D semantic scene completion networks for voxel occupancy prediction and constructing Euclidean Signed Distance Field (ESDF) maps for collision-free path planning. However, these systems exhibit suboptimal performance and efficiency in cluttered environments with severe occlusions (e.g., dense forests or tall walls), due to limitations arising from perception networks' low prediction accuracy and path planners' high computational overhead. In this paper, we present HE-Nav, the first high-performance and efficient navigation system tailored for AGRs operating in cluttered environments. The perception module utilizes a lightweight semantic scene completion network (LBSCNet), guided by a bird's eye view (BEV) feature fusion and enhanced by an exquisitely designed SCB-Fusion module and attention mechanism. This enables real-time and efficient obstacle prediction in cluttered areas, generating a complete local map. Building upon this completed map, our novel AG-Planner employs the energy-efficient kinodynamic A* search algorithm to guarantee planning is energy-saving. Subsequent trajectory optimization processes yield safe, smooth, dynamically feasible and ESDF-free aerial-ground hybrid paths. Extensive experiments demonstrate that HE-Nav achieved 7x energy savings in real-world situations while maintaining planning success rates of 98% in simulation scenarios. Code and video are available on our project page: https://jmwang0117.github.io/HE-Nav/. |
| title | HE-Nav: A High-Performance and Efficient Navigation System for Aerial-Ground Robots in Cluttered Environments |
| topic | Robotics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.05079 |