Characterizing the Complexity of Social Robot Navigation Scenarios

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العنوان: Characterizing the Complexity of Social Robot Navigation Scenarios
المؤلفون: Stratton, Andrew, Hauser, Kris, Mavrogiannis, Christoforos
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: Computer Science
مصطلحات موضوعية: Computer Science - Robotics
الوصف: Social robot navigation algorithms are often demonstrated in overly simplified scenarios, prohibiting the extraction of practical insights about their relevance to real world domains. Our key insight is that an understanding of the inherent complexity of a social robot navigation scenario could help characterize the limitations of existing navigation algorithms and provide actionable directions for improvement. Through an exploration of recent literature, we identify a series of factors contributing to the complexity of a scenario, disambiguating between contextual and robot-related ones. We then conduct a simulation study investigating how manipulations of contextual factors impact the performance of a variety of navigation algorithms. We find that dense and narrow environments correlate most strongly with performance drops, while the heterogeneity of agent policies and directionality of interactions have a less pronounced effect. This motivates a shift towards developing and testing algorithms under higher-complexity settings.
Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.11410
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2405.11410
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv