COVID surveillance robot: Monitoring social distancing constraints in indoor scenarios

AJ Sathyamoorthy, U Patel, M Paul, Y Savle… - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Observing social/physical distancing norms between humans has become an indispensable
precaution to slow down the transmission of COVID-19. We present a novel method to …

Drl-vo: Learning to navigate through crowded dynamic scenes using velocity obstacles

Z Xie, P Dames - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article proposes a novel learning-based control policy with strong generalizability to
new environments that enables a mobile robot to navigate autonomously through spaces …

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 …

Dwa-rl: Dynamically feasible deep reinforcement learning policy for robot navigation among mobile obstacles

U Patel, NKS Kumar, AJ Sathyamoorthy… - … on Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.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 …

Frozone: Freezing-free, pedestrian-friendly navigation in human crowds

AJ Sathyamoorthy, U Patel, T Guan… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present Frozone, a novel algorithm to deal with the Freezing Robot Problem (FRP) that
arises when a robot navigates through dense scenarios and crowds. Our method senses …

Autonomous ground navigation in highly constrained spaces: Lessons learned from the benchmark autonomous robot navigation challenge at icra 2022 [competitions …

X Xiao, Z Xu, Z Wang, Y Song, G Warnell… - IEEE Robotics & …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Benchmark Autonomous Robot Navigation (BARN) Challenge took place at the 2022
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), in Philadelphia, PA …

Land: Learning to navigate from disengagements

G Kahn, P Abbeel, S Levine - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Consistently testing autonomous mobile robots in real world scenarios is a necessary aspect
of developing autonomous navigation systems. Each time the human safety monitor …

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 …

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 …

Navigating robots in dynamic environment with deep reinforcement learning

Z Zhou, Z Zeng, L Lang, W Yao, H Lu… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the fight against COVID-19, many robots replace human employees in various tasks that
involve a risk of infection. Among these tasks, the fundamental problem of navigating robots …