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Navigating fluently around pedestrians is a necessary capability for mobile robots deployed in human environments, such as buildings and homes. While research on social navigation has focused mainly on the scalability with the number of…

This work presents a decentralized motion planning framework for addressing the task of multi-robot navigation using deep reinforcement learning. A custom simulator was developed in order to experimentally investigate the navigation problem…

This paper contributes a method to design a novel navigation planner exploiting a learning-based collision prediction network. The neural network is tasked to predict the collision cost of each action sequence in a predefined motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Huan Nguyen , Sondre Holm Fyhn , Paolo De Petris , Kostas Alexis

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) demonstrates great potential in mapless navigation domain. However, such a navigation model is normally restricted to a fixed configuration of the range sensor because its input format is fixed. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Wei Zhang , Ning Liu , Yunfeng Zhang

Robot navigation in dynamic environments shared with humans is an important but challenging task, which suffers from performance deterioration as the crowd grows. In this paper, multi-subgoal robot navigation approach based on deep…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Xinyi Yu , Jianan Hu , Yuehai Fan , Wancai Zheng , Linlin Ou

In densely populated environments, socially compliant navigation is critical for autonomous robots as driving close to people is unavoidable. This manner of social navigation is challenging given the constraints of human comfort and social…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Xinjie Yao , Ji Zhang , Jean Oh

Robot navigation in dense human crowds poses a significant challenge due to the complexity of human behavior in dynamic and obstacle-rich environments. In this work, we propose a dynamic weight adjustment scheme using a neural network to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Muqing Cao , Xinhang Xu , Yizhuo Yang , Jianping Li , Tongxing Jin , Pengfei Wang , Tzu-Yi Hung , Guosheng Lin , Lihua Xie

We present a map-less path planning algorithm based on Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) for mobile robots navigating in unknown environment that only relies on 40-dimensional raw laser data and odometry information. The planner is trained…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Nicolò Botteghi , Beril Sirmacek , Khaled A. A. Mustafa , Mannes Poel , Stefano Stramigioli

This paper contributes a novel and modularized learning-based method for aerial robots navigating cluttered environments containing hard-to-perceive thin obstacles without assuming access to a map or the full pose estimation of the robot.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Mihir Kulkarni , Huan Nguyen , Kostas Alexis

Autonomous motion planning is challenging in multi-obstacle environments due to nonconvex collision avoidance constraints. Directly applying numerical solvers to these nonconvex formulations fails to exploit the constraint structures,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Ruihua Han , Shuai Wang , Shuaijun Wang , Zeqing Zhang , Qianru Zhang , Yonina C. Eldar , Qi Hao , Jia Pan

This paper presents a novel approach for robot navigation in environments containing deformable obstacles. By integrating Learning from Demonstration (LfD) with Dynamical Systems (DS), we enable adaptive and efficient navigation in complex…

Navigation in human-robot shared crowded environments remains challenging, as robots are expected to move efficiently while respecting human motion conventions. However, many existing approaches emphasize safety or efficiency while…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Zhirui Sun , Xingrong Diao , Yao Wang , Bi-Ke Zhu , Jiankun Wang

This paper addresses the challenge of collision-free motion planning in automated navigation within complex environments. Utilizing advancements in Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) and sensor technologies like LiDAR, we propose the TD3-DWA…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Hao Liu , Yi Shen , Chang Zhou , Yuelin Zou , Zijun Gao , Qi Wang

Robots operating in human-populated environments must navigate safely and efficiently while minimizing social disruption. Achieving this requires estimating crowd movement to avoid congested areas in real-time. Traditional microscopic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Maryam Kazemi Eskeri , Thomas Wiedemann , Ville Kyrki , Dominik Baumann , Tomasz Piotr Kucner

Decentralized control of robots has attracted huge research interests. However, some of the research used unrealistic assumptions without collision avoidance. This report focuses on the collision-free control for multiple robots in both…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Xiaotian Yang

Autonomous mobile robots are increasingly used in pedestrian-rich environments where safe navigation and appropriate human interaction are crucial. While Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) enables socially integrated robot behavior,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Daniel Flögel , Marcos Gómez Villafañe , Joshua Ransiek , Sören Hohmann

This work proposes a novel approach to social robot navigation by learning to generate robot controls from a social motion latent space. By leveraging this social motion latent space, the proposed method achieves significant improvements in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Junaid Ahmed Ansari , Satyajit Tourani , Gourav Kumar , Brojeshwar Bhowmick

Humanoid robots rely on multi-contact planners to navigate a diverse set of environments, including those that are unstructured and highly constrained. To synthesize stable multi-contact plans within a reasonable time frame, most planners…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Carlos Gonzalez , Luis Sentis

Mobile robotics is a research area that has witnessed incredible advances for the last decades. Robot navigation is an essential task for mobile robots. Many methods are proposed for allowing robots to navigate within different…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Omar Mohamed , Zeyad Mohsen , Mohamed Wageeh , Mohamed Hegazy

Multi-robot navigation is a challenging task in which multiple robots must be coordinated simultaneously within dynamic environments. We apply deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to learn a decentralized end-to-end policy which maps raw…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Christian Jestel , Hartmut Surmann , Jonas Stenzel , Oliver Urbann , Marius Brehler