3 papers
cs.RO2026
Navigating the Proximity-Safety Balance: Constraint Decomposition for Human Following in Pedestrian Crowds
Shiting Gong, Jianpeng Yao, Jinfeng Wang +2
Following a target human in crowded environments involves an inherent conflict between staying close to the target and navigating safely among surrounding pedestrians and obstacles…
cs.RO2026
EvoNav: Evolutionary Reward Function Design for Robot Navigation with Large Language Models
Zhikai Zhao, Chuanbo Hua, Federico Berto +4
Robot navigation is a crucial task with applications to social robots in dynamic human environments. While Reinforcement Learning (RL) has shown great promise for this problem, the…
cs.RO2024
Adaptive Prediction Ensemble: Improving Out-of-Distribution Generalization of Motion Forecasting
Jinning Li, Jiachen Li, Sangjae Bae +1
Deep learning-based trajectory prediction models for autonomous driving often struggle with generalization to out-of-distribution (OOD) scenarios, sometimes performing worse than s…