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Learning Perceptual Hallucination for Multi-Robot Navigation in Narrow Hallways

Learning Perceptual Hallucination for Multi-Robot Navigation in Narrow Hallways.
Jinsoo Park, Xuesu Xiao, Garrett Warnell, Harel Yedidsion, and Peter Stone.
In Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2023), May 2023.
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Abstract

While current systems for autonomous robot navigation can produce safe and efficient motion plans in static environments, they usually generate suboptimal behaviors when multiple robots must navigate together in confined spaces. For example, when two robots meet each other in a narrow hallway, they may either turn around to find an alternative route or collide with each other. This paper presents a new approach to navigation that allows two robots to pass each other in a narrow hallway without colliding, stopping, or waiting. Our approach, Perceptual Hallucination for Hallway Passing (PHHP), learns to synthetically generate virtual obstacles (i.e., perceptual hallucination) to facilitate passing in narrow hallways by multiple robots that utilize otherwise standard autonomous navigation systems. Our experiments on physical robots in a variety of hallways show improved performance compared to multiple baselines.

BibTeX Entry

@InProceedings{ICRA23-Park,
  author = {Jinsoo Park and Xuesu Xiao and Garrett Warnell and Harel Yedidsion and Peter Stone},
  title = {Learning Perceptual Hallucination for Multi-Robot Navigation in Narrow Hallways},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2023)},
  location = {London, England},
  month = {May},
  year = {2023},
  abstract = {
  While current systems for autonomous robot navigation can produce safe and 
  efficient motion plans in static environments, they usually generate suboptimal 
  behaviors when multiple robots must navigate together in confined spaces.
  For example, when two robots meet each other in a narrow hallway, they may 
  either turn around to find an alternative route or collide with each other. 
  This paper presents a new approach to navigation that allows two robots to pass 
  each other in a narrow hallway without colliding, stopping, or waiting. 
  Our approach, Perceptual Hallucination for Hallway Passing (PHHP), 
  learns to synthetically generate virtual obstacles (i.e., perceptual 
  hallucination) to facilitate passing in narrow hallways by multiple robots that
  utilize otherwise standard autonomous navigation systems. Our experiments on 
  physical robots in a variety of hallways show improved performance compared to 
  multiple baselines.
  },
  wwwnote={<a href="https://youtu.be/_Htzodqkz8k">6-minute video presentation</a>},
}

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