Adap-RPF: 動的混雑環境におけるロボット人物追従のための適応的軌道サンプリング
Adap-RPF: Adaptive Trajectory Sampling for Robot Person Following in Dynamic Crowded Environments
混雑環境での人物追従のため、社会的に配慮した領域で密な候補点を生成し多目的コストで評価する適応的軌道サンプリングと、歩行者予測を考慮したMPPI制御器を提案した。
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著者: Weixi Situ, Hanjing Ye, Jianwei Peng, Yu Zhan, Hong Zhang
分類: cs.RO
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Robot person following (RPF) is a core capability in human-robot interaction, enabling robots to assist users in daily activities, collaborative work, and other service scenarios. However, achieving practical RPF remains challenging due to frequent occlusions, particularly in dynamic and crowded environments. Existing approaches often rely on fixed-point following or sparse candidate-point selection with oversimplified heuristics, which cannot adequately handle complex occlusions caused by moving obstacles such as pedestrians. To address these limitations, we propose an adaptive trajectory sampling method that generates dense candidate points within socially aware zones and evaluates them using a multi-objective cost function. Based on the optimal point, a person-following trajectory is estimated relative to the predicted motion of the target. We further design a prediction-aware model predictive path integral (MPPI) controller that simultaneously tracks this trajectory and proactively avoids collisions using predicted pedestrian motions. Extensive experiments show that our method outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in smoothness, safety, robustness, and human comfort, with its effectiveness further demonstrated on a mobile robot in real-world scenarios.
