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Deliverable 5.4: Final integrated system also including simulation, crowd navigation for experimental scenario

Work package 5 (WP5) is about developing a coherent theoretical and functional system architecture that can accommodate the targeted scenarios and facilitate the integration of the different work packages across all four robotic platforms. However, this process must be iterative and reviewable after each milestone so that the achievement of such objectives is guaranteed during

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Deliverable 4.3: Crowd simulator – final version

This report details the crowd simulation software and tools that were developed for the CrowdBot project and presents their last version reached at the end of the project, up to month M42. The development of the crowd simulation tools was mainly performed in the frame of Workpackage 4 of the project. The simulation tools for

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Deliverable 2.3: Local sensing system

In this report we describe the development in the perception pipeline, which is crucial towards safe robotic navigation. In Section 2, we briefly recap the previous pipeline, composed of multi-modal (RGB cameras and LiDAR sensors) person detection and joint tracking in a unified world coordinate system, and we present an overview of the updated components.

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Publication (RSS-2021): Unfreezing Social Navigation : Dynamical Systems based Compliance for Contact Control in Robot Navigation

Authors: D. Paez-Granados, V. Gupta, A. Billard

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Deliverable 3.6: Shared control navigation

Work Package 3 of the CrowdBot project focuses on navigation. Half of our prototype crowdbots (Pepper and cuyBot) are designed to be fully autonomous and so the navigation algorithm must deal with both global and local aspects of planning. However, the other two crowdbots (smart wheelchair and Qolo) are designed to support human users improving

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Publication (IJSR 2021): Safety Concerns Emerging from Robots Navigating in Crowded Pedestrian Areas

Authors: Salvini, Pericle; Paez-Granados, Diego Felipe; Billard, Aude

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Webex All-hands & ExCom meeting – June 2021

An All-hands meeting was held by videoconference with all partners on 14 and 15 June 2021.

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Autonomy Talks: Safe Robot Navigation in Dense Human Crowds

Today, we were organising as part of the CrowdBot project a roundtable discussion about Shared control wheelchair.

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Publication (ICRA 2021): Crowd against the machine: A simulation-based benchmark tool to evaluate and compare robot capabilities to navigate a human crowd

Authors: F. Grzeskowiak, D. Gonon, D. Dugas, D. Paez-Granados, J. Chung, J. Nieto, R. Siegwart, A. Billard, M. Babel, J. Pettré

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Webex Executive Commitee meeting – March 2021

Like for a year now, an ExCom meeting was held in March 2021 by videoconference with all partners.