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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Robot Behavior Adaptation via Semantic Mapping
Navigation and behavior adaption for mobile robots based on semantic mapping and social interactions.
Human Detection and Tracking (RGB-D)
Computer vision for human detection, tracking, action and social state detection communicated via ROS.
Related Publications
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
All-in-One: A DRL-based Control Switch Combining State-of-the-art Navigation Planners
Linh Kästner, Johannes Cox, Teham Buiyan, Jens Lambrecht
GROVE: Grounded Pedestrian Simulation via Natural Language for Interactive Social Robot Navigation
Duc Tai Nguyen, Volodymyr Shcherbyna, Anh Do Duc, Zhengcheng Shen, Teham Buiyan, Linh Kästner
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