2019
Group Surfing: A Pedestrian-Based Approach to Sidewalk Robot Navigation
Yuqing Du, Nicholas J. Hetherington, Chu Lip Oon, Wesley P. Chan, Camilo Perez Quintero, Elizabeth Croft +1
ICRA 2019poster
In this paper, we propose a novel navigation system for mobile robots in pedestrian-rich sidewalk environments. Sidewalks are unique in that the pedestrian-shared space has characteristics of both roads and indoor spaces. Like vehicles on roads, pedestrian movement often manifests as linear flows in…