Time-optimal Flight in Cluttered Environments via Safe Reinforcement Learning

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العنوان: Time-optimal Flight in Cluttered Environments via Safe Reinforcement Learning
المؤلفون: Xiao, Wei, Feng, Zhaohan, Zhou, Ziyu, Sun, Jian, Wang, Gang, Chen, Jie
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: Computer Science
مصطلحات موضوعية: Computer Science - Robotics
الوصف: This paper addresses the problem of guiding a quadrotor through a predefined sequence of waypoints in cluttered environments, aiming to minimize the flight time while avoiding collisions. Previous approaches either suffer from prolonged computational time caused by solving complex non-convex optimization problems or are limited by the inherent smoothness of polynomial trajectory representations, thereby restricting the flexibility of movement. In this work, we present a safe reinforcement learning approach for autonomous drone racing with time-optimal flight in cluttered environments. The reinforcement learning policy, trained using safety and terminal rewards specifically designed to enforce near time-optimal and collision-free flight, outperforms current state-of-the-art algorithms. Additionally, experimental results demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed approach in achieving both minimum flight time and obstacle avoidance objectives in complex environments, with a commendable $66.7\%$ success rate in unseen, challenging settings.
Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.19646
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2406.19646
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv