In the revolution of Industry 4.0, autonomous robot navigation plays a vital role in ensuring intelligent cooperation with human workers to increase manufacturing efficiency. Human prefers to maintain a proxemic distance with other subjects for safety and comfort purposes, where the human personal-space can be represented by a costmap. Current proxemic costmaps perform well in defining the proxemic boundary to maintain the human-robot proxemic distance. However, these approaches generate static costmaps that are not adaptive towards different human states (linear position, angular position and velocity). This problem impacts the robot navigation efficiency, reduces human safety and comfort as the autonomous robot failed to prioritize avoiding certain humans over the other. To overcome this drawback, this paper proposed a neural-network based adaptive proxemic-costmap, named as NNPC, that can generate different sized personal-spaces at different human state encounters. The proposed proxemic-costmap was developed by learning a neural-network model using real human state data. A total of three human scenarios were used for data collection. The data were collected by tracking the humans in video recordings. After the model was trained, the proposed NNPC costmap was evaluated against two other state-of-art proxemic costmaps in five simulated human scenarios with various human states. Results show that NNPC outperformed the compared costmaps by ensuring human-aware robot manoeuvres that have higher robot efficiency and increased human safety and comfort.


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    Title :

    Neural-Network Based Adaptive Proxemics-Costmap for Human-Aware Autonomous Robot Navigation


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    Publication date :

    2019-09-05


    Remarks:

    International Journal of Integrated Engineering; Vol 11 No 4 (2019): Special Issue 2019: Electrical and Electronic Engineering ; 2600-7916 ; 2229-838X


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



    Classification :

    DDC:    629






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