Core challenges of social robot navigation: A survey

C Mavrogiannis, F Baldini, A Wang, D Zhao… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Robot navigation in crowded public spaces is a complex task that requires addressing a
variety of engineering and human factors challenges. These challenges have motivated a …

Safe planning in dynamic environments using conformal prediction

L Lindemann, M Cleaveland, G Shim… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a framework for planning in unknown dynamic environments with probabilistic
safety guarantees using conformal prediction. Particularly, we design a model predictive …

Adaptive conformal prediction for motion planning among dynamic agents

A Dixit, L Lindemann, SX Wei… - … for Dynamics and …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
This paper proposes an algorithm for motion planning among dynamic agents using
adaptive conformal prediction. We consider a deterministic control system and use trajectory …

THÖR-MAGNI: A large-scale indoor motion capture recording of human movement and robot interaction

T Schreiter, T Rodrigues de Almeida… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
We present a new large dataset of indoor human and robot navigation and interaction,
called THÖR-MAGNI, that is designed to facilitate research on social human navigation: for …

From crowd motion prediction to robot navigation in crowds

S Poddar, C Mavrogiannis… - 2023 IEEE/RSJ …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We focus on robot navigation in crowded environments. To navigate safely and efficiently
within crowds, robots need models for crowd motion prediction. Building such models is …

Stimulus verification is a universal and effective sampler in multi-modal human trajectory prediction

J Sun, Y Li, L Chai, C Lu - … of the IEEE/CVF Conference on …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
To comprehensively cover the uncertainty of the future, the common practice of multi-modal
human trajectory prediction is to first generate a set/distribution of candidate future …

Mixed strategy Nash equilibrium for crowd navigation

M Muchen Sun, F Baldini, K Hughes… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Robots navigating in crowded areas should negotiate free space with humans rather than
fully controlling collision avoidance, as this can lead to freezing behavior. Game theory …

Winding through: Crowd navigation via topological invariance

C Mavrogiannis, K Balasubramanian… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We focus on robot navigation in crowded environments. The challenge of predicting the
motion of a crowd around a robot makes it hard to ensure human safety and comfort. Recent …

Recursively feasible shrinking-horizon mpc in dynamic environments with conformal prediction guarantees

C Stamouli, L Lindemann… - 6th Annual Learning for …, 2024 - proceedings.mlr.press
In this paper, we focus on the problem of shrinking-horizon Model Predictive Control (MPC)
in uncertain dynamic environments. We consider controlling a deterministic autonomous …

[HTML][HTML] Motion planning in dynamic environments using context-aware human trajectory prediction

MN Finean, L Petrović, W Merkt, I Marković… - … and autonomous systems, 2023 - Elsevier
Over the years, the separate fields of motion planning, mapping, and human trajectory
prediction have advanced considerably. However, the literature is still sparse in providing …