Robot Navigation in Crowd Based on Dual Social Attention Deep Reinforcement Learning
Hui Zeng,
Rong Hu,
Xiaohui Huang and
Zhiying Peng
Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2021, vol. 2021, 1-11
Abstract:
Finding a feasible, collision-free path in line with social activities is an important and challenging task for robots working in dense crowds. In recent years, many studies have used deep reinforcement learning techniques to solve this problem. In particular, it is necessary to find an efficient path in a short time which often requires predicting the interaction with neighboring agents. However, as the crowd grows and the scene becomes more and more complex, researchers usually simplify the problem to a one-way human-robot interaction problem. But, in fact, we have to consider not only the interaction between humans and robots but also the influence of human-human interactions on the movement trajectory of the robot. Therefore, this article proposes a method based on deep reinforcement learning to enable the robot to avoid obstacles in the crowd and navigate smoothly from the starting point to the target point. We use a dual social attention mechanism to jointly model human-robot and human-human interaction. All sorts of experiments demonstrate that our model can make robots navigate in dense crowds more efficiently compared with other algorithms.
Date: 2021
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:
Downloads: (external link)
http://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/MPE/2021/7114981.pdf (application/pdf)
http://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/MPE/2021/7114981.xml (text/xml)
Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.
Export reference: BibTeX
RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan)
HTML/Text
Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hin:jnlmpe:7114981
DOI: 10.1155/2021/7114981
Access Statistics for this article
More articles in Mathematical Problems in Engineering from Hindawi
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Mohamed Abdelhakeem ().