SINRL: Socially Integrated Navigation with Reinforcement Learning using Spiking Neural Networks

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Main Authors: Tretter, Florian, Flögel, Daniel, Vasilache, Alexandru, Grobbel, Max, Becker, Jürgen, Hohmann, Sören
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Published: 2025
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author Tretter, Florian
Flögel, Daniel
Vasilache, Alexandru
Grobbel, Max
Becker, Jürgen
Hohmann, Sören
author_facet Tretter, Florian
Flögel, Daniel
Vasilache, Alexandru
Grobbel, Max
Becker, Jürgen
Hohmann, Sören
contents Integrating autonomous mobile robots into human environments requires human-like decision-making and energy-efficient, event-based computation. Despite progress, neuromorphic methods are rarely applied to Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) navigation approaches due to unstable training. We address this gap with a hybrid socially integrated DRL actor-critic approach that combines Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) in the actor with Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) in the critic and a neuromorphic feature extractor to capture temporal crowd dynamics and human-robot interactions. Our approach enhances social navigation performance and reduces estimated energy consumption by approximately 1.69 orders of magnitude.
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spellingShingle SINRL: Socially Integrated Navigation with Reinforcement Learning using Spiking Neural Networks
Tretter, Florian
Flögel, Daniel
Vasilache, Alexandru
Grobbel, Max
Becker, Jürgen
Hohmann, Sören
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Systems and Control
Integrating autonomous mobile robots into human environments requires human-like decision-making and energy-efficient, event-based computation. Despite progress, neuromorphic methods are rarely applied to Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) navigation approaches due to unstable training. We address this gap with a hybrid socially integrated DRL actor-critic approach that combines Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) in the actor with Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) in the critic and a neuromorphic feature extractor to capture temporal crowd dynamics and human-robot interactions. Our approach enhances social navigation performance and reduces estimated energy consumption by approximately 1.69 orders of magnitude.
title SINRL: Socially Integrated Navigation with Reinforcement Learning using Spiking Neural Networks
topic Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.07266