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Crowd-Robot Interaction: Crowd-aware Robot Navigation with Attention-based Deep Reinforcement Learning

Chen, Changan
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Liu, Yuejiang  
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Kreiss, Sven  
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2019
2019 International Conference On Robotics And Automation (Icra)
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

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 reinforcement learning techniques to learn socially cooperative policies. However, their cooperation ability deteriorates as the crowd grows since they typically relax the problem as a one-way Human-Robot interaction problem. In this work, we want to go beyond first-order Human-Robot interaction and more explicitly model Crowd-Robot Interaction (CRI). We propose to (i) rethink pairwise interactions with a self-attention mechanism, and (ii) jointly model Human-Robot as well as Human-Human interactions in the deep reinforcement learning framework. Our model captures the Human-Human interactions occurring in dense crowds that indirectly affects the robot's anticipation capability. Our proposed attentive pooling mechanism learns the collective importance of neighboring humans with respect to their future states. Various experiments demonstrate that our model can anticipate human dynamics and navigate in crowds with time efficiency, outperforming state-of-the-art methods.

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Type
conference paper
DOI
10.1109/ICRA.2019.8794134
Web of Science ID

WOS:000494942304059

Author(s)
Chen, Changan
Liu, Yuejiang  
Kreiss, Sven  
Alahi, Alexandre  
Date Issued

2019

Publisher

IEEE

Publisher place

New York

Published in
2019 International Conference On Robotics And Automation (Icra)
ISBN of the book

978-1-5386-6026-3

Series title/Series vol.

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation ICRA

Start page

6015

End page

6022

Subjects

Crowd-robot interaction

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Human-robot interaction

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Deep Reinforcement Learning

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Attention model

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Robot navigation

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Socially-aware Artificial Intelligence

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obstacle avoidance

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people

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motion

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

EPFL units
VITA  
Event nameEvent placeEvent date
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Montreal, Canada

May 20-24, 2019

Available on Infoscience
September 25, 2018
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/148570
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