Robot navigation in a crowd by integrating deep reinforcement learning and online planning

Z Zhou, P Zhu, Z Zeng, J Xiao, H Lu, Z Zhou - Applied Intelligence, 2022 - Springer
Navigating mobile robots along time-efficient and collision-free paths in crowds is still an
open and challenging problem. The key is to build a profound understanding of the crowd …

Decentralized structural-rnn for robot crowd navigation with deep reinforcement learning

S Liu, P Chang, W Liang, N Chakraborty… - … on robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Safe and efficient navigation through human crowds is an essential capability for mobile
robots. Previous work on robot crowd navigation assumes that the dynamics of all agents …

Crowd-aware robot navigation for pedestrians with multiple collision avoidance strategies via map-based deep reinforcement learning

S Yao, G Chen, Q Qiu, J Ma, X Chen… - 2021 IEEE/RSJ …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It is challenging for a mobile robot to navigate through human crowds. Existing approaches
usually assume that pedestrians follow a predefined collision avoidance strategy, like social …

Deep reinforcement learning based on social spatial–temporal graph convolution network for crowd navigation

Y Lu, X Ruan, J Huang - Machines, 2022 - mdpi.com
In the crowd navigation, reinforcement learning based on graph neural network is a
promising method, which effectively solves the poor navigation effect based on social …

Crowd-robot interaction: Crowd-aware robot navigation with attention-based deep reinforcement learning

C Chen, Y Liu, S Kreiss, A Alahi - … international conference on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobility in an effective and socially-compliant manner is an essential yet challenging task for
robots operating in crowded spaces. Recent works have shown the power of deep …

Robot navigation in crowds by graph convolutional networks with attention learned from human gaze

Y Chen, C Liu, BE Shi, M Liu - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Safe and efficient crowd navigation for mobile robot is a crucial yet challenging task.
Previous work has shown the power of deep reinforcement learning frameworks to train …

Intention aware robot crowd navigation with attention-based interaction graph

S Liu, P Chang, Z Huang, N Chakraborty… - … on Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We study the problem of safe and intention-aware robot navigation in dense and interactive
crowds. Most previous reinforcement learning (RL) based methods fail to consider different …

Relational graph learning for crowd navigation

C Chen, S Hu, P Nikdel, G Mori… - 2020 IEEE/RSJ …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a relational graph learning approach for robotic crowd navigation using model-
based deep reinforcement learning that plans actions by looking into the future. Our …

L2b: Learning to balance the safety-efficiency trade-off in interactive crowd-aware robot navigation

M Nishimura, R Yonetani - 2020 IEEE/RSJ International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work presents a deep reinforcement learning framework for interactive navigation in a
crowded place. Our proposed Learning to Balance (L2B) framework enables mobile robot …

Socially aware crowd navigation with multimodal pedestrian trajectory prediction for autonomous vehicles

K Li, M Shan, K Narula, S Worrall… - 2020 IEEE 23rd …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Seamlessly operating an autonomous vehicles in a crowded pedestrian environment is a
very challenging task. This is because human movement and interactions are very hard to …