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Spatio-Temporal Transformer-Based Reinforcement Learning for Robot Crowd Navigation

26 May 2023arXiv:2305.16612links table onlyarchive 2025-07-28

Haodong He, Hao Fu, Qiang Wang, Shuai Zhou, Wei Liu

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The social robot navigation is an open and challenging problem. In existing work, separate modules are used to capture spatial and temporal features, respectively. However, such methods lead to extra difficulties in improving the utilization of spatio-temporal features and reducing the conservative nature of navigation policy. In light of this, we present a spatio-temporal transformer-based policy optimization algorithm to enhance the utilization of spatio-temporal features, thereby facilitating the capture of human-robot interactions. Specifically, this paper introduces a gated embedding mechanism that effectively aligns the spatial and temporal representations by integrating both modalities at the feature level. Then Transformer is leveraged to encode the spatio-temporal semantic information, with hope of finding the optimal navigation policy. Finally, a combination of spatio-temporal Transformer and self-adjusting policy entropy significantly reduces the conservatism of navigation policies. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework, where our method shows superior performance.

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