Core challenges of social robot navigation: A survey

C Mavrogiannis, F Baldini, A Wang, D Zhao… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Robot navigation in crowded public spaces is a complex task that requires addressing a
variety of engineering and human factors challenges. These challenges have motivated a …

Collision avoidance of multi unmanned aerial vehicles: A review

S Huang, RSH Teo, KK Tan - Annual Reviews in Control, 2019 - Elsevier
The control of a multiple unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system is popular and attracting a
lot of attentions. This is motivated by many practical civil and commercial UAV applications …

Crowd-robot interaction: Crowd-aware robot navigation with attention-based deep reinforcement learning

C Chen, Y Liu, S Kreiss, A Alahi - … international conference on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Distributed multi-robot collision avoidance via deep reinforcement learning for navigation in complex scenarios

T Fan, P Long, W Liu, J Pan - The International Journal of …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Developing a safe and efficient collision-avoidance policy for multiple robots is challenging
in the decentralized scenarios where each robot generates its paths with limited observation …

Towards optimally decentralized multi-robot collision avoidance via deep reinforcement learning

P Long, T Fan, X Liao, W Liu… - 2018 IEEE international …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Developing a safe and efficient collision avoidance policy for multiple robots is challenging
in the decentralized scenarios where each robot generates its paths without observing other …

Decentralized non-communicating multiagent collision avoidance with deep reinforcement learning

YF Chen, M Liu, M Everett… - 2017 IEEE international …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Finding feasible, collision-free paths for multiagent systems can be challenging, particularly
in non-communicating scenarios where each agent's intent (eg goal) is unobservable to the …

Collision avoidance in pedestrian-rich environments with deep reinforcement learning

M Everett, YF Chen, JP How - Ieee Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Collision avoidance algorithms are essential for safe and efficient robot operation among
pedestrians. This work proposes using deep reinforcement (RL) learning as a framework to …

Algorithms for collision-free navigation of mobile robots in complex cluttered environments: a survey

M Hoy, AS Matveev, AV Savkin - Robotica, 2015 - cambridge.org
We review a range of techniques related to navigation of unmanned vehicles through
unknown environments with obstacles, especially those that rigorously ensure collision …

Fast, on-line collision avoidance for dynamic vehicles using buffered voronoi cells

D Zhou, Z Wang, S Bandyopadhyay… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter presents a distributed collision avoidance algorithm for multiple dynamic vehicles
moving in arbitrary dimensions. In our algorithm, each robot continually computes its …

Reinforcement learned distributed multi-robot navigation with reciprocal velocity obstacle shaped rewards

R Han, S Chen, S Wang, Z Zhang… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The challenges to solving the collision avoidance problem lie in adaptively choosing optimal
robot velocities in complex scenarios full of interactive obstacles. In this letter, we propose a …