DREAM: Decentralized Real-time Asynchronous Probabilistic Trajectory Planning for Collision-free Multi-Robot Navigation in Cluttered Environments

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Main Authors: Şenbaşlar, Baskın, Sukhatme, Gaurav S.
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Published: 2023
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author Şenbaşlar, Baskın
Sukhatme, Gaurav S.
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Sukhatme, Gaurav S.
contents Collision-free navigation in cluttered environments with static and dynamic obstacles is essential for many multi-robot tasks. Dynamic obstacles may also be interactive, i.e., their behavior varies based on the behavior of other entities. We propose a novel representation for interactive behavior of dynamic obstacles and a decentralized real-time multi-robot trajectory planning algorithm allowing inter-robot collision avoidance as well as static and dynamic obstacle avoidance. Our planner simulates the behavior of dynamic obstacles, accounting for interactivity. We account for the perception inaccuracy of static and prediction inaccuracy of dynamic obstacles. We handle asynchronous planning between teammates and message delays, drops, and re-orderings. We evaluate our algorithm in simulations using 25400 random cases and compare it against three state-of-the-art baselines using 2100 random cases. Our algorithm achieves up to 1.68x success rate using as low as 0.28x time in single-robot, and up to 2.15x success rate using as low as 0.36x time in multi-robot cases compared to the best baseline. We implement our planner on real quadrotors to show its real-world applicability.
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spellingShingle DREAM: Decentralized Real-time Asynchronous Probabilistic Trajectory Planning for Collision-free Multi-Robot Navigation in Cluttered Environments
Şenbaşlar, Baskın
Sukhatme, Gaurav S.
Robotics
Collision-free navigation in cluttered environments with static and dynamic obstacles is essential for many multi-robot tasks. Dynamic obstacles may also be interactive, i.e., their behavior varies based on the behavior of other entities. We propose a novel representation for interactive behavior of dynamic obstacles and a decentralized real-time multi-robot trajectory planning algorithm allowing inter-robot collision avoidance as well as static and dynamic obstacle avoidance. Our planner simulates the behavior of dynamic obstacles, accounting for interactivity. We account for the perception inaccuracy of static and prediction inaccuracy of dynamic obstacles. We handle asynchronous planning between teammates and message delays, drops, and re-orderings. We evaluate our algorithm in simulations using 25400 random cases and compare it against three state-of-the-art baselines using 2100 random cases. Our algorithm achieves up to 1.68x success rate using as low as 0.28x time in single-robot, and up to 2.15x success rate using as low as 0.36x time in multi-robot cases compared to the best baseline. We implement our planner on real quadrotors to show its real-world applicability.
title DREAM: Decentralized Real-time Asynchronous Probabilistic Trajectory Planning for Collision-free Multi-Robot Navigation in Cluttered Environments
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.15887