Affordance-Based Mobile Robot Navigation Among Movable Obstacles

Maozhen Wang,Rui Luo,Aykut Özgün Önol,Taşkin Padir,Maozhen Wang,Rui Luo,Aykut Özgün Önol,Taşkin Padir

Avoiding obstacles in the perceived world has been the classical approach to autonomous mobile robot navigation. However, this usually leads to unnatural and inefficient motions that significantly differ from the way humans move in tight and dynamic spaces, as we do not refrain interacting with the environment around us when necessary. Inspired by this observation, we propose a framework for auton...