期刊
IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS
卷 6, 期 4, 页码 7596-7603出版社
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2021.3098304
关键词
Aerial systems: applications; field robots; aerial systems: perception and autonomy; multi-robot systems; mapping
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资金
- Czech Science Foundation Research (GACR) [20-29531S]
- CTU [SGS20/174/OHK3/3T/13]
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
- OP VVV [CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16 019/0000765]
This letter introduces a self-contained system for utilizing aerial robots in autonomous exploration of cave environments, connecting crucial robotic subsystems for full autonomy. The system is designed for various exploration tasks in unknown cave environments, allowing for multiple exploration strategies.
This letter presents a self-contained system for the robust utilization of aerial robots in the autonomous exploration of cave environments to help human explorers, first responders, and speleologists. The proposed system is generally applicable to an arbitrary exploration task within an unknown and unstructured subterranean environment and interconnects crucial robotic subsystems to provide full autonomy of the robots. Such subsystems primarily include mapping, path and trajectory planning, localization, control, and decision making. Due to the diversity, complexity, and structural uncertainty of natural cave environments, the proposed system allows for the possible use of any arbitrary exploration strategy for a single robot, as well as for a cooperating team. A multi-robot cooperation strategy that maximizes the limited flight time of each aerial robot is proposed for exploration and search & rescue scenarios where the homing of all deployed robots back to an initial location is not required. The entire system is validated in a comprehensive experimental analysis comprising of hours of flight time in a real-world cave environment, as well as by hundreds of hours within a state-of-the-art virtual testbed that was developed for the DARPA Subterranean Challenge robotic competition. Among others, experimental results include multiple real-world exploration flights traveling over 470 m on a single battery in a demanding unknown cave environment.
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