3 papers
cs.RO2026
HiCrowd: Hierarchical Crowd Flow Alignment for Dense Human Environments
Yufei Zhu, Shih-Min Yang, Martin Magnusson +1
Navigating through dense human crowds remains a significant challenge for mobile robots. A key issue is the freezing robot problem, where the robot struggles to find safe motions a…
cs.RO2026
NeMo-map: Neural Implicit Flow Fields for Spatio-Temporal Motion Mapping
Yufei Zhu, Shih-Min Yang, Andrey Rudenko +3
Safe and efficient robot operation in complex human environments can benefit from good models of site-specific motion patterns. Maps of Dynamics (MoDs) provide such models by encod…
cs.LG2025
KEA: Keeping Exploration Alive by Proactively Coordinating Exploration Strategies
Shih-Min Yang, Martin Magnusson, Johannes A. Stork +1
Soft Actor-Critic (SAC) has achieved notable success in continuous control tasks but struggles in sparse reward settings, where infrequent rewards make efficient exploration challe…