Title
Social Navigation Planning Based on People's Awareness of Robots.
Abstract
When mobile robots maneuver near people, they run the risk of rudely blocking their paths; but not all people behave the same around robots. People that have not noticed the robot are the most difficult to predict. This paper investigates how mobile robots can generate acceptable paths in dynamic environments by predicting human behavior. Here, human behavior may include both physical and mental behavior, we focus on the latter. We introduce a simple safe interaction model: when a human seems unaware of the robot, it should avoid going too close. In this study, people around robots are detected and tracked using sensor fusion and filtering techniques. To handle uncertainties in the dynamic environment, a Partially-Observable Markov Decision Process Model (POMDP) is used to formulate a navigation planning problem in the shared environment. Peopleu0027s awareness of robots is inferred and included as a state and reward model in the POMDP. The proposed planner enables a robot to change its navigation plan based on its perception of each personu0027s robot-awareness. As far as we can tell, this is a new capability. We conduct simulation and experiments using the Toyota Human Support Robot (HSR) to validate our approach. We demonstrate that the proposed framework is capable of running in real-time.
Year
Venue
Field
2018
arXiv: Robotics
Partially observable Markov decision process,Markov decision process,Planner,Sensor fusion,Control engineering,Human–computer interaction,Engineering,Robot,Perception,Mobile robot,Social navigation
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1809.08780
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
MinKyu Kim112.05
Jaemin Lee262.94
Steven Jens Jorgensen311.04
Luis Sentis457459.74