Pedestrian-Robot Interactions on Autonomous Crowd Navigation: Reactive Control Methods and Evaluation Metrics

Diego Paez-Granados,Yujie He,David Gonon,Dan Jia,Bastian Leibe,Kenji Suzuki,Aude Billard,Diego Paez-Granados,Yujie He,David Gonon,Dan Jia,Bastian Leibe,Kenji Suzuki,Aude Billard

Autonomous navigation in highly populated areas remains a challenging task for robots because of the difficulty in guaranteeing safe interactions with pedestrians in unstructured situations. In this work, we present a crowd navigation control framework that delivers continuous obstacle avoidance and post-contact control evaluated on an autonomous personal mobility vehicle. We propose evaluation me...