DBaS-Log-MPPI: Efficient and Safe Trajectory Optimization via Barrier States
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| author | Wang, Fanxin Jiang, Haolong Tao, Chuyuan Wan, Wenbin Cheng, Yikun |
| author_facet | Wang, Fanxin Jiang, Haolong Tao, Chuyuan Wan, Wenbin Cheng, Yikun |
| contents | Optimizing trajectory costs for nonlinear control systems remains a significant challenge. Model Predictive Control (MPC), particularly sampling-based approaches such as the Model Predictive Path Integral (MPPI) method, has recently demonstrated considerable success by leveraging parallel computing to efficiently evaluate numerous trajectories. However, MPPI often struggles to balance safe navigation in constrained environments with effective exploration in open spaces, leading to infeasibility in cluttered conditions. To address these limitations, we propose DBaS-Log-MPPI, a novel algorithm that integrates Discrete Barrier States (DBaS) to ensure safety while enabling adaptive exploration with enhanced feasibility. Our method is efficiently validated through three simulation missions and one real-world experiment, involving a 2D quadrotor and a ground vehicle navigating through cluttered obstacles. We demonstrate that our algorithm surpasses both Vanilla MPPI and Log-MPPI, achieving higher success rates, lower tracking errors, and a conservative average speed. |
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| spellingShingle | DBaS-Log-MPPI: Efficient and Safe Trajectory Optimization via Barrier States Wang, Fanxin Jiang, Haolong Tao, Chuyuan Wan, Wenbin Cheng, Yikun Robotics Systems and Control Optimizing trajectory costs for nonlinear control systems remains a significant challenge. Model Predictive Control (MPC), particularly sampling-based approaches such as the Model Predictive Path Integral (MPPI) method, has recently demonstrated considerable success by leveraging parallel computing to efficiently evaluate numerous trajectories. However, MPPI often struggles to balance safe navigation in constrained environments with effective exploration in open spaces, leading to infeasibility in cluttered conditions. To address these limitations, we propose DBaS-Log-MPPI, a novel algorithm that integrates Discrete Barrier States (DBaS) to ensure safety while enabling adaptive exploration with enhanced feasibility. Our method is efficiently validated through three simulation missions and one real-world experiment, involving a 2D quadrotor and a ground vehicle navigating through cluttered obstacles. We demonstrate that our algorithm surpasses both Vanilla MPPI and Log-MPPI, achieving higher success rates, lower tracking errors, and a conservative average speed. |
| title | DBaS-Log-MPPI: Efficient and Safe Trajectory Optimization via Barrier States |
| topic | Robotics Systems and Control |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06437 |