Abstract
Navigating mobile robots through environments shared with humans is challenging. From the perspective of the robot, humans are dynamic obstacles that must be avoided. These obstacles make the collision-free space nonconvex, which leads to two distinct passing behaviors per obstacle (passing left or right). For local planners, such as receding-horizon trajectory optimization, each behavior presents a local optimum in which the planner can get stuck. This may result in slow or unsafe motion even when a better plan exists. In this work, we identify trajectories for multiple locally optimal driving behaviors, by considering their topology. This identification is made consistent over successive iterations by propagating the topology information. The most suitable high-level trajectory guides a local optimization-based planner, resulting in fast and safe motion plans. We validate the proposed planner on a mobile robot in simulation and real-world experiments.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2023) |
Publisher | IEEE |
Pages | 10118-10124 |
ISBN (Print) | 979-8-3503-2365-8 |
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Publication status | Published - 2023 |
Event | ICRA 2023: International Conference on Robotics and Automation - London, United Kingdom Duration: 29 May 2023 → 2 Jun 2023 |
Conference
Conference | ICRA 2023: International Conference on Robotics and Automation |
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Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
City | London |
Period | 29/05/23 → 2/06/23 |
Bibliographical note
Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-careOtherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.