Title
Learning and Leveraging Features in Flow-Like Environments to Improve Situational Awareness
Abstract
This letter studies how global dynamics and knowledge of high-level features can inform decision-making for robots in flow-like environments. Specifically, we investigate how coherent sets, an environmental feature found in these environments, inform robot awareness within these scenarios. The proposed approach is an online environmental feature generator which can be used for robot reasoning. We compute coherent sets online with techniques from machine learning and design frameworks for robot behavior that leverage coherent set features. We demonstrate the effectiveness of online methods over offline methods. Notably, we apply these online methods for robot monitoring of pedestrian behaviors and robot navigation through water. Environmental features such as coherent sets provide rich context to robots for smarter, more efficient behavior.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/LRA.2022.3141762
IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Environment monitoring and management, marine robotics, surveillance robotic systems
Journal
7
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
2377-3766
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tahiya Salam100.34
Victoria Edwards200.34
M. Ani Hsieh338234.69