Title
Reactive Navigation in Crowds for Non-Holonomic Robots With Convex Bounding Shape
Abstract
This letter describes a novel method for non-holonomic robots of convex shape to avoid imminent collisions with moving obstacles. The method's purpose is to assist navigation in crowds by correcting steering from the robot's path planner or driver. We evaluate its performance using a custom simulator which replicates real crowd movements and corresponding metrics which quantify agents' efficiency and the robot's impact on the crowd and count collisions. We implement and evaluate the method on the standing wheelchair Qolo. In our experiments, it drives in autonomous mode using on-board sensing (LiDAR, RGB-D camera and a system to track pedestrians) and avoids collisions with up to five pedestrians and passes through a door.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/LRA.2021.3068660
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Collision avoidance,reactive and sensor-based planning,human-aware motion planning,velocity obstacle
Journal
6
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
2377-3766
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
David Julian Gonon110.37
Diego Felipe Paez Granados253.48
Aude Billard373.86