This report details the robust localization and mapping algorithms developed for the Crowdbot project between months M1 and M30. Our proposed solutions are designed with the explicit goal of achieving robot navigation in crowded environments, where many existing methods struggle due to the high degree of dynamic motion around the robot. This report primarily serves
State-of-the-art approaches for robot navigation among humans are typically restricted to planar movement actions. This work addresses the question of whether it can be beneficial to use interaction actions, such as saying, touching, and gesturing, for the sake of allowing robots to navigate in unstructured, crowded environments. To do so, we first identify challenging scenarios
Due to Covid, Executive Commitee meeting was held in June by videoconference.
Due to Covid, All-hand meeting was held in June by videoconference.
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This deliverable introduces the CrowdBot Challenge and presents its level of advancement before launching the first round. This document first presents the objective of the challenge, which is, in brief, to allow teams working in the field of crowd robot navigation to evaluate their navigation techniques and to compare their methods for moving robots in
A new ExCom meeting was held by videoconference with all partners in May. Partners planned the next months of the project. It was initially scheduled in Paris on 4th May 2020. Considering the current situation (with covid-19), the date was maintained but the format changed for visio conference.
Due to Covid, an Exceptional Executive Commitee meeting was held in March .
Authors: Grzeskowiak, Fabien; Babel, Marie; Bruneau, Julien; Pettre, Julien
Authors: Zhang, Bingqing; Holloway, Catherine; Carlson, Tom