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ECHO: An Efficient Heuristic Viewpoint Determination Method on Frontier-Based Autonomous Exploration for Quadrotors


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As a popular drone application, autonomous exploration suffers from low efficiency. To address the issue of repeated and unnecessary exploration, especially in a large-sc...Show More

Abstract:

As a popular drone application, autonomous exploration suffers from low efficiency. To address the issue of repeated and unnecessary exploration, especially in a large-scale and cluttered environment, this letter proposes an efficient heuristic viewpoint determination method on frontier-based autonomous exploration, which includes viewpoint generation, evaluation, and refinement. A Gaussian sampler is employed to randomly generate higher-quality initial viewpoints; meanwhile, a fresh heuristic evaluation function is designed to select the next viewpoint; besides, a refinement strategy is presented to improve the viewpoint. Extensive simulations and real-world tests indicate that the proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art frontier-based method by 15%-25% in almost all scenarios.
Published in: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters ( Volume: 8, Issue: 8, August 2023)
Page(s): 5047 - 5054
Date of Publication: 05 June 2023

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