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Social robot navigation in crowded public spaces such as university campuses, restaurants, grocery stores, and hospitals, is an increasingly important area of research. One of the core strategies for achieving this goal is to understand…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Rohan Chandra , Haresh Karnan , Negar Mehr , Peter Stone , Joydeep Biswas

As more and more robots are envisioned to cooperate with humans sharing the same space, it is desired for robots to be able to predict others' trajectories to navigate in a safe and self-explanatory way. We propose a Convolutional Neural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Dapeng Zhao

Human motion is stochastic and ensuring safe robot navigation in a pedestrian-rich environment requires proactive decision-making. Past research relied on incorporating deterministic future states of surrounding pedestrians which can be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Anshul Nayak , Azim Eskandarian

Pedestrian trajectory prediction is essential for various applications in active traffic management, urban planning, traffic control, crowd management, and autonomous driving, aiming to enhance traffic safety and efficiency. Accurately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Rei Tamaru , Pei Li , Bin Ran

Social navigation in densely populated dynamic environments poses a significant challenge for autonomous mobile robots, requiring advanced strategies for safe interaction. Existing reinforcement learning (RL)-based methods require over…

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 of dynamic objects is a widely studied topic in the field of artificial intelligence. Thanks to a large number of applications like predicting abnormal events, navigation system for the blind, etc. there have been many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-29 Daksh Varshneya , G. Srinivasaraghavan

Autonomous mobile robots need to perceive the environments with their onboard sensors (e.g., LiDARs and RGB cameras) and then make appropriate navigation decisions. In order to navigate human-inhabited public spaces, such a navigation task…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Bhabaranjan Panigrahi , Amir Hossain Raj , Mohammad Nazeri , Xuesu Xiao

This work studies a robot-assisted crowd evacuation problem where we control a small group of robots to guide a large human crowd to safe locations. The challenge lies in how to model human-robot interactions and design robot controls to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Tongjia Zheng , Zhenyuan Yuan , Mollik Nayyar , Alan R. Wagner , Minghui Zhu , Hai Lin

In this paper, we address the problem of forecasting the trajectory of an egocentric camera wearer (ego-person) in crowded spaces. The trajectory forecasting ability learned from the data of different camera wearers walking around in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Jianing Qiu , Lipeng Chen , Xiao Gu , Frank P. -W. Lo , Ya-Yen Tsai , Jiankai Sun , Jiaqi Liu , Benny Lo

Traffic prediction is necessary not only for management departments to dispatch vehicles but also for drivers to avoid congested roads. Many traffic forecasting methods based on deep learning have been proposed in recent years, and their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Jichen Wang , Weiguo Zhu , Yongqi Sun , Chunzi Tian

Navigation and guidance of autonomous vehicles is a fundamental problem in robotics, which has attracted intensive research in recent decades. This report is mainly concerned with provable collision avoidance of multiple autonomous vehicles…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-01-28 Michael Hoy

In this paper, we present a novel method to recognize the types of crowd movement from crowd trajectories using agent-based motion models (AMMs). Our idea is to apply a number of AMMs, referred to as exemplar-AMMs, to describe the crowd…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Wenxi Liu , Rynson W. H. Lau , Xiaogang Wang , Dinesh Manocha

Mobile robot navigation has seen extensive research in the last decades. The aspect of collaboration with robots and humans sharing workspaces will become increasingly important in the future. Therefore, the next generation of mobile robots…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Tessa van der Heiden , Florian Mirus , Herke van Hoof

This work introduces a robot navigation controller that combines event cameras and other sensors with reinforcement learning to enable real-time human-centered navigation and obstacle avoidance. Unlike conventional image-based controllers,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Ignacio Bugueno-Cordova , Javier Ruiz-del-Solar , Rodrigo Verschae

Moving in complex environments is an essential capability of intelligent mobile robots. Decades of research and engineering have been dedicated to developing sophisticated navigation systems to move mobile robots from one point to another.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Xuesu Xiao , Bo Liu , Garrett Warnell , Peter Stone

This paper reports on learning a reward map for social navigation in dynamic environments where the robot can reason about its path at any time, given agents' trajectories and scene geometry. Humans navigating in dense and dynamic indoor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Tribhi Kathuria , Ke Liu , Junwoo Jang , X. Jessie Yang , Maani Ghaffari

During multi-party interactions, gaze direction is a key indicator of interest and intent, making it essential for social robots to direct their attention appropriately. Understanding the social context is crucial for robots to engage…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Ramtin Tabatabaei , Alireza Taheri

In this paper, we present an algorithm to efficiently learn socially-compliant navigation policies from observations of human trajectories. As mobile robots come to inhabit and traffic social spaces, they must account for social cues and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Bobak H. Baghi , Gregory Dudek

Accurate vehicle trajectory prediction is crucial for ensuring safe and efficient autonomous driving. This work explores the integration of Transformer based model with Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) based technique to enhance spatial and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Chandra Raskoti , Weizi Li