暗黙的マルチセンサ融合と深層強化学習による密集群衆下での移動ロボットのリアルタイム衝突回避
Realtime Collision Avoidance for Mobile Robots in Dense Crowds using Implicit Multi-sensor Fusion and Deep Reinforcement Learning
2D LiDARと深度カメラを暗黙的に融合し、3DシミュレーションでPPOにより学習した方策を実機に転移させ、密集群衆や狭い通路でもリアルタイムに滑らかな衝突回避を実現した。
著者: Jing Liang, Utsav Patel, Adarsh Jagan Sathyamoorthy, Dinesh Manocha
分類: cs.RO
原文アブストラクト
We present a novel learning-based collision avoidance algorithm, CrowdSteer, for mobile robots operating in dense and crowded environments. Our approach is end-to-end and uses multiple perception sensors such as a 2-D lidar along with a depth camera to sense surrounding dynamic agents and compute collision-free velocities. Our training approach is based on the sim-to-real paradigm and uses high fidelity 3-D simulations of pedestrians and the environment to train a policy using Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO). We show that our learned navigation model is directly transferable to previously unseen virtual and dense real-world environments. We have integrated our algorithm with differential drive robots and evaluated its performance in narrow scenarios such as dense crowds, narrow corridors, T-junctions, L-junctions, etc. In practice, our approach can perform real-time collision avoidance and generate smooth trajectories in such complex scenarios. We also compare the performance with prior methods based on metrics such as trajectory length, mean time to goal, success rate, and smoothness and observe considerable improvement.
