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Mimicking human ability to forecast future positions or interpret complex interactions in urban scenarios, such as streets, shopping malls or squares, is essential to develop socially compliant robots or self-driving cars. Autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Matteo Lisotto , Pasquale Coscia , Lamberto Ballan

We present a real-time algorithm, SocioSense, for socially-aware navigation of a robot amongst pedestrians. Our approach computes time-varying behaviors of each pedestrian using Bayesian learning and Personality Trait theory. These…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Aniket Bera , Tanmay Randhavane , Rohan Prinja , Dinesh Manocha

It is challenging for a mobile robot to navigate through human crowds. Existing approaches usually assume that pedestrians follow a predefined collision avoidance strategy, like social force model (SFM) or optimal reciprocal collision…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Shunyi Yao1 , Guangda Chen , Quecheng Qiu , Jun Ma , Xiaoping Chen , Jianmin Ji

Predicting the behavior of crowds in complex environments is a key requirement in a multitude of application areas, including crowd and disaster management, architectural design, and urban planning. Given a crowd's immediate state, current…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Samuel S. Sohn , Seonghyeon Moon , Honglu Zhou , Sejong Yoon , Vladimir Pavlovic , Mubbasir Kapadia

Mobility in an effective and socially-compliant manner is an essential yet challenging task for robots operating in crowded spaces. Recent works have shown the power of deep reinforcement learning techniques to learn socially cooperative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Changan Chen , Yuejiang Liu , Sven Kreiss , Alexandre Alahi

Navigating social robots in dense, dynamic crowds is challenging due to environmental uncertainty and complex human-robot interactions. While Model Predictive Control (MPC) offers strong real-time performance, its reliance on a fixed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jiamin Shi , Haolin Zhang , Yuchen Yan , Shitao Chen , Jingmin Xin , Nanning Zheng

Automatic crowd counting using density estimation has gained significant attention in computer vision research. As a result, a large number of crowd counting and density estimation models using convolution neural networks (CNN) have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Muhammad Asif Khan , Hamid Menouar , Ridha Hamila

Moving in dynamic pedestrian environments is one of the important requirements for autonomous mobile robots. We present a model-based reinforcement learning approach for robots to navigate through crowded environments. The navigation policy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Yuxiang Cui , Haodong Zhang , Yue Wang , Rong Xiong

Real-time navigation in dense human environments is a challenging problem in robotics. Most existing path planners fail to account for the dynamics of pedestrians because introducing time as an additional dimension in search space is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Chao Cao , Pete Trautman , Soshi Iba

We present a novel human-aware navigation approach, where the robot learns to mimic humans to navigate safely in crowds. The presented model, referred to as DeepMoTIon, is trained with pedestrian surveillance data to predict human velocity…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-05 Mahmoud Hamandi , Mike D'Arcy , Pooyan Fazli

As robots increasingly integrate into everyday environments, ensuring their safe navigation around humans becomes imperative. Efficient and safe motion planning requires robots to account for human behavior, particularly in constrained…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Michael Lu , Minh Bui , Xubo Lyu , Mo Chen

Achieving social acceptance is one of the main goals of Social Robotic Navigation. Despite this topic has received increasing interest in recent years, most of the research has focused on driving the robotic agent along obstacle-free…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Andrea Eirale , Matteo Leonetti , Marcello Chiaberge

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

Safe and efficient navigation through human crowds is an essential capability for mobile robots. Previous work on robot crowd navigation assumes that the dynamics of all agents are known and well-defined. In addition, the performance of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Shuijing Liu , Peixin Chang , Weihang Liang , Neeloy Chakraborty , Katherine Driggs-Campbell

Safe and computationally efficient local planning for mobile robots in dense, unstructured human crowds remains a fundamental challenge. Moreover, ensuring that robot trajectories are similar to how a human moves will increase the…

Cooperatively avoiding collision is a critical functionality for robots navigating in dense human crowds, failure of which could lead to either overaggressive or overcautious behavior. A necessary condition for cooperative collision…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Muchen Sun , Francesca Baldini , Peter Trautman , Todd Murphey

Robot path planning model based on RNN and visual quality evaluation in the context of crowds is analyzed in this paper. Mobile robot path planning is the key to robot navigation and an important field in robot research. Let the motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-11 W. Z. Wang , R. Q. Wang , G. H. Chen

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

Crowd movement guidance has been a fascinating problem in various fields, such as easing traffic congestion in unusual events and evacuating people from an emergency-affected area. To grab the reins of crowds, there has been considerable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Koh Takeuchi , Ryo Nishida , Hisashi Kashima , Masaki Onishi

Traditional path-planning techniques treat humans as obstacles. This has changed since robots started to enter human environments. On modern robots, social navigation has become an important aspect of navigation systems. To use…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Yigit Yildirim , Emre Ugur