期刊
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY
卷 68, 期 2, 页码 1339-1350出版社
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2018.2890416
关键词
Autonomous exploration; active SLAM; view planning; navigation; heterogeneous vehicular systems; collaborative system
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [NSFC 61803105, U1701264]
In this paper, we present a novel integrated vehicular system using collaborative unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) for autonomous exploration, mapping, and navigation in GPS-denied 3-dimensional (3-D) unknown environments. The system implements a novel two-layered exploration strategy to decompose the perception task into a coarse exploration layer and a fine mapping layer. The coarse exploration makes use of a UGV to carry out fast autonomous exploration and active 2.5D simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) to generate a coarse environment model, which serves as a navigation reference for subsequent complementary 3-D fine mapping conducted by a UAV. The two layers share a novel optimized exploration path planning and navigation framework, which provides optimal exploration paths and integrates the collaborative exploration and mapping efforts through an OctoMap-based volumetric motion planning interface. The proposed system provides an efficient pipeline of fast environment perception taking advantages of the agility of the UAVs as well as the powerful computation resource aboard UGVs, also allowing assistive local perception with augmented object information when necessary. The effectiveness of our system is verified by both simulations and experiments, which demonstrate its capability of implementing heterogeneous UAV and UGV collaborative exploration and structural reconstruction of the environments through active SLAM, providing optimized perception for navigation tasks.
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