密集・不確実な群衆中のロボットナビゲーションのための人-人・人-ロボット相互作用トランスフォーマー (H2INT)
Human-Human & Human-Robot Interaction Transformer (H2INT) for Robot Navigation in Dense and Uncertain Crowds
群衆中のロボットナビゲーションにおいて、歩行者がロボットの存在に応じて動きを変えることを明示的にモデル化する強化学習フレームワークを提案。人-人・人-ロボット関係を階層的に符号化するトランスフォーマーと、応答性を段階的に低下させるカリキュラム学習により、安全性と頑健性を向上させた。
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著者: Ao Shen, Kaixi Chen, Shiwei Liu, Fang Deng, Chen Chen
分類: cs.RO
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Safe robot navigation in dense crowds requires reasoning about pedestrian motion and how it may change in response to a robot. However, many learning-based approaches generate pedestrian motion independently of the robot or assume uniform reciprocity, omitting an important source of interaction uncertainty. This paper presents a Human-Human & Human-Robot Interaction Transformer (H2INT), a reinforcement learning framework that retains robot-conditioned changes in pedestrian motion during policy learning while allowing responsiveness to vary across pedestrians. Responsiveness affects the crowd dynamics when the robot is visible but is not supplied as a policy input; the policy must instead infer its consequences from robot-centered relative positions. A two-stage gated Transformer progressively encodes human-human and human-robot relations, while a recurrent policy captures their temporal evolution. A curriculum gradually reduces pedestrian responsiveness to increase interaction difficulty. Simulation experiments demonstrate improved navigation safety and robustness over representative baselines across response conditions and crowd densities, and show transfer without retraining to structurally distinct crowd-flow layouts. Ablations support the hierarchical relational encoding and gated updates. Real-robot deployment further verifies that the learned policy can operate with sparse observations in a physical environment.