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| author | Zhang, Hao Wang, Yifei Zhang, Weifan Wang, Yu Chen, Haoyao |
| author_facet | Zhang, Hao Wang, Yifei Zhang, Weifan Wang, Yu Chen, Haoyao |
| contents | Utilizing robots for autonomous target search in complex and unknown environments can greatly improve the efficiency of search and rescue missions. However, existing methods have shown inadequate performance due to hardware platform limitations, inefficient viewpoint selection strategies, and conservative motion planning. In this work, we propose HEATS, which enhances the search capability of mobile manipulators in complex and unknown environments. We design a target viewpoint planner tailored to the strengths of mobile manipulators, ensuring efficient and comprehensive viewpoint planning. Supported by this, a whole-body motion planner integrates global path search with local IPC optimization, enabling the mobile manipulator to safely and agilely visit target viewpoints, significantly improving search performance. We present extensive simulated and real-world tests, in which our method demonstrates reduced search time, higher target search completeness, and lower movement cost compared to classic and state-of-the-art approaches. Our method will be open-sourced for community benefit. |
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| spellingShingle | HEATS: A Hierarchical Framework for Efficient Autonomous Target Search with Mobile Manipulators Zhang, Hao Wang, Yifei Zhang, Weifan Wang, Yu Chen, Haoyao Robotics Utilizing robots for autonomous target search in complex and unknown environments can greatly improve the efficiency of search and rescue missions. However, existing methods have shown inadequate performance due to hardware platform limitations, inefficient viewpoint selection strategies, and conservative motion planning. In this work, we propose HEATS, which enhances the search capability of mobile manipulators in complex and unknown environments. We design a target viewpoint planner tailored to the strengths of mobile manipulators, ensuring efficient and comprehensive viewpoint planning. Supported by this, a whole-body motion planner integrates global path search with local IPC optimization, enabling the mobile manipulator to safely and agilely visit target viewpoints, significantly improving search performance. We present extensive simulated and real-world tests, in which our method demonstrates reduced search time, higher target search completeness, and lower movement cost compared to classic and state-of-the-art approaches. Our method will be open-sourced for community benefit. |
| title | HEATS: A Hierarchical Framework for Efficient Autonomous Target Search with Mobile Manipulators |
| topic | Robotics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.07986 |