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Robot navigation is crucial across various domains, yet traditional methods focus on efficiency and obstacle avoidance, often overlooking human behavior in shared spaces. With the rise of service robots, socially aware navigation has gained…

Machine learning provides a powerful tool for building socially compliant robotic systems that go beyond simple predictive models of human behavior. By observing and understanding human interactions from past experiences, learning can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Noriaki Hirose , Dhruv Shah , Ajay Sridhar , Sergey Levine

Navigating urban environments represents a complex task for automated vehicles. They must reach their goal safely and efficiently while considering a multitude of traffic participants. We propose a modular decision making algorithm to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Maxime Bouton , Alireza Nakhaei , Kikuo Fujimura , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Pedestrian behavior prediction is one of the major challenges for intelligent driving systems. Pedestrians often exhibit complex behaviors influenced by various contextual elements. To address this problem, we propose BiPed, a multitask…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Amir Rasouli , Mohsen Rohani , Jun Luo

Navigating safely through dense crowds requires collision avoidance that generalizes beyond the densities seen during training. Learning-based crowd navigation can break under out-of-distribution crowd sizes due to density-sensitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jiefu Zhang , Yang Xu , Vaneet Aggarwal

Trajectory prediction is crucial for autonomous vehicles. The planning system not only needs to know the current state of the surrounding objects but also their possible states in the future. As for vehicles, their trajectories are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Chenxu Luo , Lin Sun , Dariush Dabiri , Alan Yuille

Trajectory generation and trajectory prediction are two critical tasks in autonomous driving, which generate various trajectories for testing during development and predict the trajectories of surrounding vehicles during operation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Ruochen Jiao , Yixuan Wang , Xiangguo Liu , Chao Huang , Qi Zhu

Deploying a safe mobile robot policy in scenarios with human pedestrians is challenging due to their unpredictable movements. Current Reinforcement Learning-based motion planners rely on a single policy to simulate pedestrian movements and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Wen Zheng Terence Ng , Jianda Chen , Sinno Jialin Pan , Tianwei Zhang

In order to predict a pedestrian's trajectory in a crowd accurately, one has to take into account her/his underlying socio-temporal interactions with other pedestrians consistently. Unlike existing work that represents the relevant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Yuke Li , Lixiong Chen , Guangyi Chen , Ching-Yao Chan , Kun Zhang , Stefano Anzellotti , Donglai Wei

The potential market for modern self-driving cars is enormous, as they are developing remarkably rapidly. At the same time, however, accidents of pedestrian fatalities caused by autonomous driving have been recorded in the case of street…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Haozhe Lei , Quanyan Zhu

Predicting the motion of agents such as pedestrians or human-driven vehicles is one of the most critical problems in the autonomous driving domain. The overall safety of driving and the comfort of a passenger directly depend on its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Yuriy Biktairov , Maxim Stebelev , Irina Rudenko , Oleh Shliazhko , Boris Yangel

Navigating mobile robots in social environments remains a challenging task due to the intricacies of human-robot interactions. Most of the motion planners designed for crowded and dynamic environments focus on choosing the best velocity to…

Predicting pedestrian behavior is challenging yet crucial for applications such as autonomous driving and smart city. Recent deep learning models have achieved remarkable performance in making accurate predictions, but they fail to provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Yan Feng , Alexander Carballo , Kazuya Takeda

Motion prediction of vehicles is critical but challenging due to the uncertainties in complex environments and the limited visibility caused by occlusions and limited sensor ranges. In this paper, we study a new task, safety-aware motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Xuanchi Ren , Tao Yang , Li Erran Li , Alexandre Alahi , Qifeng Chen

Multi-pedestrian trajectory prediction is an indispensable element of autonomous systems that safely interact with crowds in unstructured environments. Many recent efforts in trajectory prediction algorithms have focused on understanding…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Zhe Huang , Ruohua Li , Kazuki Shin , Katherine Driggs-Campbell

Robot navigation in dynamic, crowded environments poses a significant challenge due to the inherent uncertainties in the obstacle model. In this work, we propose a risk-adaptive approach based on the Conditional Value-at-Risk Barrier…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Xinyi Wang , Taekyung Kim , Bardh Hoxha , Georgios Fainekos , Dimitra Panagou

The advent of autonomous vehicles (AVs) alongside human-driven vehicles (HVs) has ushered in an era of mixed traffic flow, presenting a significant challenge: the intricate interaction between these entities within complex driving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Jiaqi Liu , Donghao Zhou , Peng Hang , Ying Ni , Jian Sun

Since the past few decades, human trajectory forecasting has been a field of active research owing to its numerous real-world applications: evacuation situation analysis, deployment of intelligent transport systems, traffic operations, to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Parth Kothari , Sven Kreiss , Alexandre Alahi

Socially compliant navigation requires robots to move safely and appropriately in human-centered environments by respecting social norms. However, social norms are often ambiguous, and in a single scenario, multiple actions may be equally…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Zishuo Wang , Xinyu Zhang , Zhuonan Liu , Tomohito Kawabata , Daeun Song , Xuesu Xiao , Ling Xiao

Navigation in dense crowds is a well-known open problem in robotics with many challenges in mapping, localization, and planning. Traditional solutions consider dense pedestrians as passive/active moving obstacles that are the cause of all…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Tingxiang Fan , Dawei Wang , Wenxi Liu , Jia Pan