학술논문

CCTV-Informed Human-Aware Robot Navigation in Crowded Indoor Environments
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters IEEE Robot. Autom. Lett. Robotics and Automation Letters, IEEE. 9(6):5767-5774 Jun, 2024
Subject
Robotics and Control Systems
Computing and Processing
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Robots
Navigation
Robot sensing systems
Sensors
Costs
Indoor environment
Collision avoidance
Human-aware motion planning
task and motion planning
Language
ISSN
2377-3766
2377-3774
Abstract
Mobile robot navigation in crowded indoor environments is a challenging task due to the limited sensing capabilities of onboard sensors. In this study, we propose a mobile robot navigation framework that utilizes external CCTV data to address the limitations of local sensors in a crowded environment. This approach enables mobile robots to navigate safely and efficiently in complex environments by encapsulating human movements from CCTVs to anticipate the human impact on the unclear navigational trajectory of our robot and devise human-aware paths that mitigate collision risks and minimize social intrusions. Further, we integrate a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithm into a generated global path to fine-tune robotic navigation in human-populated areas, enabling the robot to learn efficiently and socially acceptable navigation compared to methods based solely on local sensors. Our experiments further validate the efficiency of using CCTVs to supplement robots with constrained sensing across varied sensor capabilities and CCTVs configurations.