Unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been widely used in delivery. In the context of the COVID-2019, in order to control the development of the epidemic, many places have adopted measures to isolate and close the area once a confirmed case is found. While reducing the contact between people, it also blocks the normal driving of vehicles. Only by changing the traditional logistics and distribution methods can customers who have been in a closed and isolated area for a long time be served. Therefore, we use the Cooperative UGV-UAV to achieve it. In this paper, when commanding cooperative UGV and UAV for emergency resource delivery, we mainly focus on two questions: how to accept the operation order (OPORD) from the commander, how to generate a nested vehicle routing planning. We first employ one intelligent task understanding module to drive the intelligent unmanned vehicles to accept and process the C-BML (Coalition Battle Management Language) formatted OPORD with 5W (what, who, where, why, when) elements. Then, we slove the nested vehicle routing planning problem as a mixed integer linear program (MILP) with the outputs of what is the UGV route, what is the UGV sortie, and how to control the customers’ distribution between the UGV and the UAV. Experimental results of random instances and case study show that using the iterative improvement algorithm increase the speed rate of solving more than 10%.
In the field of robotics, it is crucial to obtain a comprehensive semantic understanding of a scene for many applications. Based on the behavioral topological map and scene graph, we propose to employ a semantic map named Topological Scene Map (TSM) for representation in indoor environment understanding. The behavioral topological map we constructed expresses the spatial connection relations and semantically describes the navigation behavior between adjacent topological nodes. The scene graph promotes the TSM to record the objects that appear in the scene and the relations between objects. The addition of spatial and semantic relations makes the expression of the scene more specific, which improves the robot’s abilities of scene understanding and human-robotic interaction. In this paper, we design a method for topological map construction and apply a novel approach to generate a scene graph from RGB-D data. The semantic representation of the environment generated in the experiments verifies that the TSM construction framework models the scene efficiently and the TSM is conducive to the realization of human-robotic interaction.