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Mark Pfeiffer

6 accepted papers

2019

OVPC Mesh: 3D Free-space Representation for Local Ground Vehicle Navigation

ICRA 2019poster

This paper presents a novel approach for local 3D environment representation for autonomous unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) navigation called On Visible Point Clouds Mesh (OVPC Mesh). Our approach represents the surrounding of the robot as a watertight 3D mesh generated from local point cloud data in…

Cited by 50SourceScholar
2019

Redundant Perception and State Estimation for Reliable Autonomous Racing

ICRA 2019poster

In autonomous racing, vehicles operate close to the limits of handling and a sensor failure can have critical consequences. To limit the impact of such failures, this paper presents the redundant perception and state estimation approaches developed for an autonomous race car. Redundancy in perceptio…

Cited by 34SourceScholar
2018

A Data-driven Model for Interaction-Aware Pedestrian Motion Prediction in Object Cluttered Environments

ICRA 2018poster

This paper reports on a data-driven, interaction-aware motion prediction approach for pedestrians in environments cluttered with static obstacles. When navigating in such workspaces shared with humans, robots need accurate motion predictions of the surrounding pedestrians. Human navigation behavior…

Cited by 140SourceScholar
2018

Reinforced Imitation: Sample Efficient Deep Reinforcement Learning for Mapless Navigation by Leveraging Prior Demonstrations

RA-L 2018

This letter presents a case study of a learning-based approach for target-driven mapless navigation. The underlying navigation model is an end-to-end neural network, which is trained using a combination of expert demonstrations, imitation learning (IL) and reinforcement learning (RL). While RL and I

Cited by 176SourcecodeScholar
2017

From perception to decision: A data-driven approach to end-to-end motion planning for autonomous ground robots

ICRA 2017poster

Learning from demonstration for motion planning is an ongoing research topic. In this paper we present a model that is able to learn the complex mapping from raw 2D-laser range findings and a target position to the required steering commands for the robot. To our best knowledge, this work presents t…

Cited by 526SourceScholar
2016

Predicting actions to act predictably: Cooperative partial motion planning with maximum entropy models

IROS 2016poster

This paper reports on a data-driven motion planning approach for interaction-aware, socially-compliant robot navigation among human agents. Autonomous mobile robots navigating in workspaces shared with human agents require motion planning techniques providing seamless integration and smooth navigati…

Cited by 133SourceScholar