Social Navigation
Robots navigating among humans in a socially compliant manner. Understanding human motion patterns and social norms.
Key Skills & Technologies
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Human Detection and Tracking (RGB-D)
Computer vision for human detection, tracking, action and social state detection communicated via ROS.
Robot Behavior Adaptation via Semantic Mapping
Navigation and behavior adaption for mobile robots based on semantic mapping and social interactions.
Related Publications
All-in-One: A DRL-based Control Switch Combining State-of-the-art Navigation Planners
Linh Kästner, Johannes Cox, Teham Buiyan, Jens Lambrecht
Arena-Rosnav: Towards Deployment of Deep-RL-Based Obstacle Avoidance into Conventional Autonomous Navigation Systems
Linh Kästner, Teham Buiyan, Xinlin Zhao, Lei Jiao, Zhengcheng Shen, Tuan Anh Le and Jens Lambrecht
Arena2D - Deep-RL-Based Navigation in Highly Dynamic Environments
Linh Kästner, Cornelius Marx, Jens Lambrecht
Arena-Rosnav 3.0: Advancing Social Navigation in Collaborative and Highly Dynamic Environments
Linh Kästner, Volodymyr Shcherbyna, Huajian Zeng, Tuan Anh Le, Maximilian Ho-Kyoung Schreff, Halid Osmaev, Nam Truong Tran, Diego Diaz, Jan Golebiowski, Harold Soh, Jens Lambrecht
Arena-Bench 2.0: A Comprehensive Benchmark of Social Navigation Approaches in Collaborative Environments
Volodymyr Shcherbyna, Linh Kästner, Huajian Zeng, Jiaming Wang, Nhan Trinh, Zhengchen Shen, Giang Nguyen Huu Truong, Tim Lenz, Duc Anh Do, Ahmed Martban, and Eva Wiese
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