Real-Robot Friendly Passing Motion Planner for Autonomous Navigation in Crowds
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https://doi.org/10.14738/tmlai.101.11616Keywords:
passing motion plan, dynamic environment, mobile robot, deep reinforcement learningAbstract
This study proposes a real‐robot friendly passing motion planner to be used in crowds. The proposed method learns to pass pedestrians with smooth acceleration and deceleration by using passing motion learning. A key feature of the proposed method is that it is trained on a simple crowd simulation with both dynamic and stationary pedestrians. The learned passing behaviour can be used directly in autonomous navigation. Evaluations using the crowd simulations indicate that the proposed method outperforms the existing ones in terms of success rate, arrival time, and keeping a certain distance from the pedestrians. The proposed navigation framework is implemented on a mobile robot and demonstrated its successful navigation between pedestrians in a science museum.
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