Structured Graph Network for Constrained Robot Crowd Navigation with Low Fidelity Simulation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.16830v2
• Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 01:20:43 GMT
• Title: Structured Graph Network for Constrained Robot Crowd Navigation with Low Fidelity Simulation
• Authors: Shuijing Liu, Kaiwen Hong, Neeloy Chakraborty, Katherine Driggs-Campbell,
• Abstract summary: We investigate the feasibility of deploying reinforcement learning (RL) policies for constrained crowd navigation using a low-fidelity simulator. We introduce a representation of the dynamic environment, separating human and obstacle representations. This representation enables RL policies trained in a low-fidelity simulator to deploy in real world with a reduced sim2real gap.
• Score: 10.201765067255147
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: We investigate the feasibility of deploying reinforcement learning (RL) policies for constrained crowd navigation using a low-fidelity simulator. We introduce a representation of the dynamic environment, separating human and obstacle representations. Humans are represented through detected states, while obstacles are represented as computed point clouds based on maps and robot localization. This representation enables RL policies trained in a low-fidelity simulator to deploy in real world with a reduced sim2real gap. Additionally, we propose a spatio-temporal graph to model the interactions between agents and obstacles. Based on the graph, we use attention mechanisms to capture the robot-human, human-human, and human-obstacle interactions. Our method significantly improves navigation performance in both simulated and real-world environments. Video demonstrations can be found at https://sites.google.com/view/constrained-crowdnav/home.

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