COLSON: Controllable Learning-Based Social Navigation via Diffusion-Based Reinforcement Learning

Fuente: arXiv
Enregistré dans:
Détails bibliographiques
Auteurs principaux: Matsumoto, Kohei, Tomita, Yuki, Hyodo, Yuki, Kurazume, Ryo
Format: Preprint
Publié: 2025
Sujets:
Accès en ligne:
Tags: Ajouter un tag
Pas de tags, Soyez le premier à ajouter un tag!
_version_ 1866909053091840000
author Matsumoto, Kohei
Tomita, Yuki
Hyodo, Yuki
Kurazume, Ryo
author_facet Matsumoto, Kohei
Tomita, Yuki
Hyodo, Yuki
Kurazume, Ryo
contents Mobile robot navigation in dynamic environments with pedestrian traffic is a key challenge in the development of autonomous mobile service robots. Recently, deep reinforcement learning-based methods have been actively studied and have outperformed traditional rule-based approaches owing to their optimization capabilities. Among these methods, those that assume continuous action spaces typically rely on Gaussian distributions, which limit the flexibility of the generated actions. In contrast, the application of diffusion models to reinforcement learning has advanced, enabling more flexible action distributions than Gaussian policy-based approaches. In this study, we apply a diffusion-based reinforcement learning approach to social navigation and validate its effectiveness. Furthermore, by exploiting the characteristics of diffusion models, we propose extensions that enable adaptation to previously unseen scenarios without additional training. As concrete scenario examples, we demonstrate adaptability to scenarios in which static obstacles exist in the environment that were not present during training, as well as scenarios in which the objective differs from training, such as accompanying target pedestrians while avoiding others to reach the destination.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2503_13934
institution arXiv
publishDate 2025
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle COLSON: Controllable Learning-Based Social Navigation via Diffusion-Based Reinforcement Learning
Matsumoto, Kohei
Tomita, Yuki
Hyodo, Yuki
Kurazume, Ryo
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Mobile robot navigation in dynamic environments with pedestrian traffic is a key challenge in the development of autonomous mobile service robots. Recently, deep reinforcement learning-based methods have been actively studied and have outperformed traditional rule-based approaches owing to their optimization capabilities. Among these methods, those that assume continuous action spaces typically rely on Gaussian distributions, which limit the flexibility of the generated actions. In contrast, the application of diffusion models to reinforcement learning has advanced, enabling more flexible action distributions than Gaussian policy-based approaches. In this study, we apply a diffusion-based reinforcement learning approach to social navigation and validate its effectiveness. Furthermore, by exploiting the characteristics of diffusion models, we propose extensions that enable adaptation to previously unseen scenarios without additional training. As concrete scenario examples, we demonstrate adaptability to scenarios in which static obstacles exist in the environment that were not present during training, as well as scenarios in which the objective differs from training, such as accompanying target pedestrians while avoiding others to reach the destination.
title COLSON: Controllable Learning-Based Social Navigation via Diffusion-Based Reinforcement Learning
topic Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.13934