Venue
- ICRA 2023
Date
- 2023
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Learning Perceptual Hallucination for Multi-Robot Navigation in Narrow Hallways
Jin-Soo Park*
Xuesu Xiao*
Garrett Warnell*
Harel Yedidsion*
* External authors
ICRA 2023
2023
Abstract
While current systems for autonomous robot navigation can produce safe and efficient motion plans in static environments, they usually generate suboptimal behaviors when multiple robots must navigate together in confined spaces. For example, when two robots meet each other in a narrow hallway, they may either turn around to find an alternative route or collide with each other. This paper presents a new approach to navigation that allows two robots to pass each other in a narrow hallway without colliding, stopping, or waiting. Our approach, Perceptual Hallucination for Hallway Passing (PHHP), learns to synthetically generate virtual obstacles (i.e., perceptual hallucination) to facilitate passing in narrow hallways by multiple robots that utilize otherwise standard autonomous navigation systems. Our experiments on physical robots in a variety of hallways show improved performance compared to multiple baselines.
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