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Autori principali: Sportich, Benjamin, Boubakri, Kenza, Simonin, Olivier, Renzaglia, Alessandro
Natura: Preprint
Pubblicazione: 2025
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.20353
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author Sportich, Benjamin
Boubakri, Kenza
Simonin, Olivier
Renzaglia, Alessandro
author_facet Sportich, Benjamin
Boubakri, Kenza
Simonin, Olivier
Renzaglia, Alessandro
contents Reasons for mapping an unknown environment with autonomous robots are wide-ranging, but in practice, they are often overlooked when developing planning strategies. Rapid information gathering and comprehensive structural assessment of buildings have different requirements and therefore necessitate distinct methodologies. In this paper, we propose a novel modular Next-Best-View (NBV) planning framework for aerial robots that explicitly uses a reconstruction quality objective to guide the exploration planning. In particular, our approach introduces new and efficient methods for view generation and selection of viewpoint candidates that are adaptive to the user-defined quality requirements, fully exploiting the uncertainty encoded in a Truncated Signed Distance field (TSDF) representation of the environment. This results in informed and efficient exploration decisions tailored towards the predetermined objective. Finally, we validate our method via extensive simulations in realistic environments. We demonstrate that it successfully adjusts its behavior to the user goal while consistently outperforming conventional NBV strategies in terms of coverage, quality of the final 3D map and path efficiency.
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spellingShingle Quality-guided UAV Surface Exploration for 3D Reconstruction
Sportich, Benjamin
Boubakri, Kenza
Simonin, Olivier
Renzaglia, Alessandro
Robotics
Reasons for mapping an unknown environment with autonomous robots are wide-ranging, but in practice, they are often overlooked when developing planning strategies. Rapid information gathering and comprehensive structural assessment of buildings have different requirements and therefore necessitate distinct methodologies. In this paper, we propose a novel modular Next-Best-View (NBV) planning framework for aerial robots that explicitly uses a reconstruction quality objective to guide the exploration planning. In particular, our approach introduces new and efficient methods for view generation and selection of viewpoint candidates that are adaptive to the user-defined quality requirements, fully exploiting the uncertainty encoded in a Truncated Signed Distance field (TSDF) representation of the environment. This results in informed and efficient exploration decisions tailored towards the predetermined objective. Finally, we validate our method via extensive simulations in realistic environments. We demonstrate that it successfully adjusts its behavior to the user goal while consistently outperforming conventional NBV strategies in terms of coverage, quality of the final 3D map and path efficiency.
title Quality-guided UAV Surface Exploration for 3D Reconstruction
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.20353