Getting Robots Unfrozen and Unlost in Dense Pedestrian Crowds
Getting Robots Unfrozen and Unlost in Dense Pedestrian Crowds
Our goal is to navigate a mobile robot to navigate through environments with dense crowds, e.g., shopping malls, canteens, train stations, or airport terminals. In these challenging environments, existing approaches suffer from two common problems: the robot may get frozen and cannot make any progress toward its goal, or it …