Learning to Navigate Socially Through Proactive Risk Perception

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07871v3
• Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2025 07:41:15 GMT
• Title: Learning to Navigate Socially Through Proactive Risk Perception
• Authors: Erjia Xiao, Lingfeng Zhang, Yingbo Tang, Hao Cheng, Renjing Xu, Wenbo Ding, Lei Zhou, Long Chen, Hangjun Ye, Xiaoshuai Hao,
• Abstract summary: We describe our submission to the IROS 2025 RoboSense Challenge Social Navigation Track.<n>This track focuses on developing RGBD-based perception and navigation systems.<n>We introduce a Proactive Risk Perception Module to enhance social navigation performance.
• Score: 28.68878818274302
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: In this report, we describe the technical details of our submission to the IROS 2025 RoboSense Challenge Social Navigation Track. This track focuses on developing RGBD-based perception and navigation systems that enable autonomous agents to navigate safely, efficiently, and socially compliantly in dynamic human-populated indoor environments. The challenge requires agents to operate from an egocentric perspective using only onboard sensors including RGB-D observations and odometry, without access to global maps or privileged information, while maintaining social norm compliance such as safe distances and collision avoidance. Building upon the Falcon model, we introduce a Proactive Risk Perception Module to enhance social navigation performance. Our approach augments Falcon with collision risk understanding that learns to predict distance-based collision risk scores for surrounding humans, which enables the agent to develop more robust spatial awareness and proactive collision avoidance behaviors. The evaluation on the Social-HM3D benchmark demonstrates that our method improves the agent's ability to maintain personal space compliance while navigating toward goals in crowded indoor scenes with dynamic human agents, achieving 2nd place among 16 participating teams in the challenge.

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