With the continuous development of drone technology,rapid exploration strategies are of significant importance for tasks such as search and rescue and surveying.Current autonomous exploration systems often face issues...With the continuous development of drone technology,rapid exploration strategies are of significant importance for tasks such as search and rescue and surveying.Current autonomous exploration systems often face issues of partial small-area information omission in cluttered environments,leading to repeated visits by drones.This paper proposes an improved multi-drone autonomous exploration system,which introduces a novel mode-switching mechanism based on a rapid autonomous exploration framework.This mechanism dynamically adjusts the exploration mode of the drones using the density information of surrounding obstacles.By doing so,drones can avoid missing small pieces of information that result in repeated visits in complex environments,while maintaining high exploration efficiency in simpler environments.This flexible exploration planning approach effectively addresses varying levels of environmental complexity.Evaluations conducted in three different environments of varying complexity demonstrate that the proposed method achieves higher exploration efficiency and reconstruction quality.展开更多
文摘With the continuous development of drone technology,rapid exploration strategies are of significant importance for tasks such as search and rescue and surveying.Current autonomous exploration systems often face issues of partial small-area information omission in cluttered environments,leading to repeated visits by drones.This paper proposes an improved multi-drone autonomous exploration system,which introduces a novel mode-switching mechanism based on a rapid autonomous exploration framework.This mechanism dynamically adjusts the exploration mode of the drones using the density information of surrounding obstacles.By doing so,drones can avoid missing small pieces of information that result in repeated visits in complex environments,while maintaining high exploration efficiency in simpler environments.This flexible exploration planning approach effectively addresses varying levels of environmental complexity.Evaluations conducted in three different environments of varying complexity demonstrate that the proposed method achieves higher exploration efficiency and reconstruction quality.