{"title":"Towards Real-time Semantic SLAM Based on Undesired Regions Segmentation","authors":"Tianci Li, Jingyi Zhou, Junbin Guo, Dan Shen, Qizhen Weng, Xiangwei Zhu","doi":"10.1109/ICUS55513.2022.9987026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUS55513.2022.9987026","url":null,"abstract":"Visual SLAM (vSLAM) is an essential technology for providing robots with position and environment information in unknown environments. But the problem of robustness has not been well solved. For example, the features near the skyline will aggravate the scale drift of monocular SLAM systems, and the existence of challenging dynamic objects violates the static world assumption. In this paper, a robust vSLAM method to remove three undesired regions of the sky, skyline and potentially dynamic objects, building on ORB-SLAM2, is proposed. We incorporate a real-time semantic segmentation network into a vSLAM system to quickly obtain accurate semantic information to eliminate the influence of undesired regions on localization and mapping. In addition, for real-time efficiency, we put the semantic segmentation network in a separate thread and perform semantic segmentation only on keyframes. We conduct monocular and stereo SLAM experiments in 11 sequences (00–10) of the KITTI dataset. The evaluations show that our method achieves a 44.44% accuracy improvement over the baseline ORB-SLAM2 in the best case, and alleviates the scale drift in the monocular case. Compared with DynaSLAM, the advanced dynamic semantic SLAM, our method is slightly more accurate and much faster.","PeriodicalId":345773,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Systems (ICUS)","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123371442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Three-Dimensional Task Allocation of Multiple-Agent Based on Graph Attention Pointer Network","authors":"Wen Shi, Kaiwen Wang, Chengpu Yu","doi":"10.1109/ICUS55513.2022.9987230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUS55513.2022.9987230","url":null,"abstract":"The task allocation problem is a key problem in the study of multi-agent collaboration. The task allocation problem aims to assign tasks to appropriate agents under sequential and logic constraints, so that the quality and efficiency of task completion can be maximized. Several recent studies have shown that attention-based sequence generation models are promising for the task allocation. However, their results are restricted in a two-dimensional space. In this paper, a model based on Graph Attention Pointer Network is proposed for the task allocation problem in a three-dimensional space. The model fully extracts the task features in the three-dimensional space by the graph attention network, then combines the sequence generation model to achieve the task allocation. The attention mechanism in a graph attention network ensures the task allocation performance and the sequence generation method greatly improves the efficiency. Numerical simulations show that the proposed model is suitable for large-scale and dynamic task allocation problems in different three-dimensional scenarios.","PeriodicalId":345773,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Systems (ICUS)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125949377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gaussian Process based Non-myopic Cooperative Exploration of Multiple Robots","authors":"Junjie Fu, G. Wen","doi":"10.1109/ICUS55513.2022.9986879","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUS55513.2022.9986879","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we consider the cooperative efficient exploring problem for multi-robot systems in unknown environment. Gaussian process (GP) is employed to build an online environmental model based on the measurements of the robots. Information-theoretic metrics are proposed to facilitate the optimal exploring trajectory planning. A non-myopic model predictive control (MPC) based exploration strategy is designed which considers the effect of multiple future steps. To reduce the computational costs of the centralized MPC optimization problem, sequential greedy strategy is utilized to determine the trajectories of the robots in turn while considering the collision avoidance requirement between the robots. To further reduce the computational cost resulting from the standard GP regression, sparse spectrum Gaussian process (SSGP) is utilized which incurs constant training and prediction costs for the construction of the MPC optimization problem at each time step. Simulation examples are provided which demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed control strategies.","PeriodicalId":345773,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Systems (ICUS)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126751113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reliability-Aware Vehicular Communication and Mobility Optimization: Joint Data Transmission Scheduling and Motion Planning","authors":"Gangchuan Xu, Jianshan Zhou, Daxin Tian, Chenghao Ren, Xuting Duan, Zhengguo Sheng","doi":"10.1109/ICUS55513.2022.9987102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUS55513.2022.9987102","url":null,"abstract":"Motion planning and vehicular communication are two enabling technologies for the practical realization of connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs), However, few studies have recently provided an effective systematic design from a joint optimization perspective. In our research, we present an optimization system that joins the reliability-oriented cellular vehicle-to-infrastructure communication (V2I) and the multi-objective motion planning into a model predictive control (MPC) model. We propose a stochastic model characterizing the V2I communication reliability and an optimization cost function for the motion planning of a CAV regarding control energy consumption, mobility efficiency, and smoothness. The system model is to maximize the V2I communication reliability meanwhile minimizing the motion cost by jointly optimizing the velocity and data transmission of the vehicle. Using an E-constraint method, we transform the multi-objective optimization model into a tractable problem and propose a numerical optimization algorithm to solve it. Simulation results demonstrate the validity of our joint optimization method for reliability-guaranteed vehicular communication and optimal motion planning and its performance outperforms several baselines.","PeriodicalId":345773,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Systems (ICUS)","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123692484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jun-Lin Tian, T. Chao, Ming Yang, Jiahao Zhu, Song-yan Wang
{"title":"A path planning algorithm based on improved RRT* for UAVs","authors":"Jun-Lin Tian, T. Chao, Ming Yang, Jiahao Zhu, Song-yan Wang","doi":"10.1109/ICUS55513.2022.9986963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUS55513.2022.9986963","url":null,"abstract":"The path planning for UAVs in cluttered environments is one of the keys to ensuring flight missions. This paper considers a more radical strategy based on the informed rapidly exploring random tree star algorithm and presents an improved rapidly exploring random tree star algorithm. In the stage where the feasible path between the starting position and the target position is not searched, the random sampling range is reduced to a variable ellipse whose two focuses are the start and end positions, respectively. The ellipse's major axis depends on an adaptation factor that varies with the number of sample points. The improved rapidly exploring random tree star algorithm can sample in the ellipse at the initial stage of path planning to obtain a higher search efficiency and expand the search range when no feasible path is found for a long time. At the same time, the rapidly exploring random tree, rapidly exploring random tree star, and informed rapidly exploring random tree star algorithms are compared with the proposed improved rapidly exploring random tree star algorithm in simulation. The simulation results show that the improved rapidly exploring random tree star algorithm in this paper can achieve higher search efficiency.","PeriodicalId":345773,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Systems (ICUS)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123188726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Imitation Learning Based Simulation Module for Testing Unmanned Surface Vehicle Control System","authors":"Wenjing Zhang, Xiangfeng Ma, Xu Liang, Wei Zhang","doi":"10.1109/ICUS55513.2022.9986789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUS55513.2022.9986789","url":null,"abstract":"Unmanned surface vehicle (USV) is a kind of robot that can control and execute water surface tasks by satellite positioning and self sensing without human intervention. However, the high costs of labor and the environment-sensitivity property, such as the sea storm and weather condition, contributes to a numerous and complicated testing process of USV control system. Except the aboved, this task also faces the risk of equipment hardware deterioration. In total, the test on USV control system now suffer from various kinds of dilemma, such as high cost on human and material resources, high requirements for conditions, low efficiency, etc. In order to solve the aboved problems, the most urgent matter is to put forward an USV virtual simulation module to support the needs of testing the control system. With the assistant of imitation learning algorithm, we propose a virtual simulation module from a large number of the historical data to construct the virtual simulation environment of USV. Specifically, we combine the behavioral cloning algorithm and the generative adversarial imitation learning algorithm, and get further improvement in several practical problems. Experimental results show that the improved generative adversary imitation learning algorithm converges faster than the baseline generative adversary imitation learning algorithm, and effectively reduce the compound error when comparing with behavior cloning.","PeriodicalId":345773,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Systems (ICUS)","volume":"134 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116586351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xiao Shen, Xin Wang, Derong Chen, Zepeng Wang, Jiulu Gong
{"title":"Real-time Measurement of Vibration Frequency of REPDS Based on Vision","authors":"Xiao Shen, Xin Wang, Derong Chen, Zepeng Wang, Jiulu Gong","doi":"10.1109/ICUS55513.2022.9986997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUS55513.2022.9986997","url":null,"abstract":"Aiming at the vibration frequency measurement of REPDS (Reduced Pressure Drop Stick), a measurement method based on vision is proposed. Firstly, the parameters of ellipse features of top disk and top disk mark in each image of REPDS are extracted. Next, these parameters are used to measure the position and attitude of the corresponding space circle. Then, the normal vector of the REPDS at a current time is calculated by using the measured coordinates of the center of the space circle. And the attitude angle of the REPDS is calculated by the normal vector. Finally, the vibration frequency can be obtained by Fourier transform and spectrum analysis of the attitude angle sequence obtained from multiple image processing. It is proved that the method is feasible by using simulation image data. The measurement error is less than 3.3%. The method is optimized with global fixed threshold and image subsampling. Real-time measurement of vibration frequency based on the method is realized on RK3588 embedded platform, and the measurement frequency is greater than or equal to 1Hz.","PeriodicalId":345773,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Systems (ICUS)","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130785079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Research on Trusted Data Sharing Method for Multi-party Edge Terminals","authors":"Yong Pan, Zi-Yao Cheng, Yi Liu, Bowen Wang, Wenhao Wang, Cheng Zhu","doi":"10.1109/ICUS55513.2022.9987168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUS55513.2022.9987168","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, Internet of Things technology (IoT) has developed rapidly and is widely used in various fields including military. The modern warfare has a new operational style of precision strike and targeted killing, among which is supported by IoT. However, during such operations, communication is not disrupted and data transmission and distribution are carried out through a centralized mode. While warfare environments are often communication constrained, with central servers facing disconnection or attack. In this study, we develop a multi-party edge terminal data sharing scheme based on blockchain technology, which improves the security and robustness of data sharing. What's more, the paper proposes a double chain storage mechanism, which improves the data sharing efficiency to a certain extent. In this paper, the proposed scheme is applied to a certain scenario for the simulation experiment. The experimental results show that the scheme can effectively support data sharing and provide a basis for the construction of reconnaissance and strike integration system.","PeriodicalId":345773,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Systems (ICUS)","volume":"838 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133930089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Vision/Map Attitude Matrix Aided IMU/Odometer Integrated Navigation Method","authors":"Ziyue Li, Yuchao Liu, Qing-hua Zeng, Jianye Liu, Fangdong Li, Gaorui Zhang","doi":"10.1109/ICUS55513.2022.9987065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUS55513.2022.9987065","url":null,"abstract":"In the environment of complex urban roads, problems such as GNSS signal occlusion and multi-path effects caused by tall buildings, overpasses, tunnels, and dense tree canopies have brought great technical challenges to the navigation and positioning system of autonomous vehicles. In the GNSS-denied environment (such as signal occlusion and interference), the accuracy of the integrated navigation system will drop rapidly due to incomplete odometer measurement information. To solve this problem, we proposes a vision/map attitude matrix aided IMU/odometer integrated navigation system scheme. The scheme first obtains the direction, slope, and cross slope angle information of the road through positioning and high-precision maps, and constructs a road attitude matrix. Then, the scheme uses computer vision technology to calculate the angle between the vehicle and the lane line, and then obtains the vehicle attitude matrix based on vision/map information, realizing the decoupling of the odometer measurement information and the IMU attitude matrix. Based on the factor graph model, we implemented the above-mentioned multi-sensor fusion positioning algorithm and used the Matlab simulation platform to verify the performance of the algorithm. The experimental results show that our algorithm achieves a significant improvement in the accuracy of the IMU/odometer integrated navigation system in a GNSS-denied environment, which will help to promote the engineering and application of autonomous driving technology in complex environments.","PeriodicalId":345773,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Systems (ICUS)","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133940448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Construction Method of Digital Twin USV Capability Model","authors":"Zishuai Wang, Wei Han, Sheng-Li Song, Fuyu Luo, Rulei Liu, Wei Wang","doi":"10.1109/ICUS55513.2022.9986594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUS55513.2022.9986594","url":null,"abstract":"As an important enabling technology to realize advanced concepts such as digitization, intelligence and service, digital twin has attracted the attention of academia and industry. There are few relevant research in the field of USV, and how to implement the application is the focus of attention. Through the research on the software and hardware architecture of USV, this paper constructs the capability model of digital twin USV (hereinafter referred to as capability model), including kinetic model, load model and decision service, and modifies the model combined with real data. In order to verify the practicability of the capability model, a dynamic obstacle avoidance scene is constructed, and the data interaction between scene and model is realized. The capability and algorithm verification of the capability model in the scene are completed with the planning control software. The results show that the digital twin capability model has a certain reference significance for the simulation and verification of the algorithm and navigation control accuracy of USV.","PeriodicalId":345773,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Systems (ICUS)","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131132224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}