A Receding Horizon Multi-Objective Planner for Autonomous Surface Vehicles in Urban Waterways

Tixiao Shan, Wei Wang, Brendan Englot, Carlo Ratti, Daniela Rus

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Abstract

We propose a novel receding horizon planner for an autonomous surface vehicle (ASV) performing path planning in urban waterways. Feasible paths are found by repeatedly generating and searching a graph reflecting the obstacles observed in the sensor field-of-view. We also propose a novel method for multi-objective motion planning over the graph by leveraging the paradigm of lexicographic optimization and applying it to graph search within our receding horizon planner. The competing resources of interest are penalized hierarchically during the search. Higher-ranked resources cause a robot to incur non-negative costs over the paths traveled, which are occasionally zero-valued. The framework is intended to capture problems in which a robot must manage resources such as risk of collision. This leaves freedom for tie-breaking with respect to lower-priority resources; at the bottom of the hierarchy is a strictly positive quantity consumed by the robot, such as distance traveled, energy expended or time elapsed. We conduct experiments in both simulated and real-world environments to validate the proposed planner and demonstrate its capability for enabling ASV navigation in complex environments.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2020 59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2020
Pages4085-4092
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781728174471
DOIs
StatePublished - 14 Dec 2020
Event59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2020 - Virtual, Jeju Island, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 14 Dec 202018 Dec 2020

Publication series

NameProceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
Volume2020-December
ISSN (Print)0743-1546
ISSN (Electronic)2576-2370

Conference

Conference59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2020
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CityVirtual, Jeju Island
Period14/12/2018/12/20

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