Map-Aware Human Pose Prediction for Robot Follow-Ahead

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Main Authors: Jiang, Qingyuan, Susam, Burak, Chao, Jun-Jee, Isler, Volkan
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Published: 2024
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author Jiang, Qingyuan
Susam, Burak
Chao, Jun-Jee
Isler, Volkan
author_facet Jiang, Qingyuan
Susam, Burak
Chao, Jun-Jee
Isler, Volkan
contents In the robot follow-ahead task, a mobile robot is tasked to maintain its relative position in front of a moving human actor while keeping the actor in sight. To accomplish this task, it is important that the robot understand the full 3D pose of the human (since the head orientation can be different than the torso) and predict future human poses so as to plan accordingly. This prediction task is especially tricky in a complex environment with junctions and multiple corridors. In this work, we address the problem of forecasting the full 3D trajectory of a human in such environments. Our main insight is to show that one can first predict the 2D trajectory and then estimate the full 3D trajectory by conditioning the estimator on the predicted 2D trajectory. With this approach, we achieve results comparable or better than the state-of-the-art methods three times faster. As part of our contribution, we present a new dataset where, in contrast to existing datasets, the human motion is in a much larger area than a single room. We also present a complete robot system that integrates our human pose forecasting network on the mobile robot to enable real-time robot follow-ahead and present results from real-world experiments in multiple buildings on campus. Our project page, including supplementary material and videos, can be found at: https://qingyuan-jiang.github.io/iros2024_poseForecasting/
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spellingShingle Map-Aware Human Pose Prediction for Robot Follow-Ahead
Jiang, Qingyuan
Susam, Burak
Chao, Jun-Jee
Isler, Volkan
Robotics
In the robot follow-ahead task, a mobile robot is tasked to maintain its relative position in front of a moving human actor while keeping the actor in sight. To accomplish this task, it is important that the robot understand the full 3D pose of the human (since the head orientation can be different than the torso) and predict future human poses so as to plan accordingly. This prediction task is especially tricky in a complex environment with junctions and multiple corridors. In this work, we address the problem of forecasting the full 3D trajectory of a human in such environments. Our main insight is to show that one can first predict the 2D trajectory and then estimate the full 3D trajectory by conditioning the estimator on the predicted 2D trajectory. With this approach, we achieve results comparable or better than the state-of-the-art methods three times faster. As part of our contribution, we present a new dataset where, in contrast to existing datasets, the human motion is in a much larger area than a single room. We also present a complete robot system that integrates our human pose forecasting network on the mobile robot to enable real-time robot follow-ahead and present results from real-world experiments in multiple buildings on campus. Our project page, including supplementary material and videos, can be found at: https://qingyuan-jiang.github.io/iros2024_poseForecasting/
title Map-Aware Human Pose Prediction for Robot Follow-Ahead
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13294