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 …

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 …

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 …

Crowd-Aware Socially Compliant Robot Navigation via Deep Reinforcement Learning

B Xue, M Gao, C Wang, Y Cheng, F Zhou - International Journal of Social …, 2024 - Springer
Navigating in crowd environments is challenging for mobile robots because not only the
safety but also the comfort of surrounding pedestrians must be considered. In this work, a …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Dynamically feasible deep reinforcement learning policy for robot navigation in dense mobile crowds

U Patel, N Kumar, AJ Sathyamoorthy… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
We present a novel Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) based policy to compute
dynamically feasible and spatially aware velocities for a robot navigating among mobile …

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 …

Socially aware robot navigation in crowds via deep reinforcement learning with resilient reward functions

X Lu, H Woo, A Faragasso, A Yamashita… - Advanced …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Robots navigating in a robot–human coexisting environment need to optimize their paths not
only for task-related performance (eg safety and efficiency) but also for their social …