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Safe and Efficient Social Navigation through Explainable Safety Regions Based on Topological Features

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  • Haebom

Author

Victor Toscano-Duran, Sara Narteni, Alberto Carlevaro, J erome Guzzi Rocio Gonzalez-Diaz, Maurizio Mongelli

Outline

This paper presents a novel method for safe and efficient social navigation, taking into account the growing use of artificial intelligence in robotics and the active development of algorithms for autonomous systems adapting to complex social environments. Existing probabilistic models and safety region generation methods primarily rely on classification approaches and explicit rules, limiting their ability to define safety regions. This study proposes a method for generating explainable safety regions by leveraging topological features through topological data analysis. First, we use a global rule-based classification to distinguish safe from unsafe simulations based on topological characteristics. Next, we define a safety region, $S_\varepsilon$, as a collision-free region in the topological feature space using a tunable SVM classifier and order statistics. This provides a robust and scalable decision boundary that guarantees a minimum classification error $\varepsilon$. By classifying simulations based on the presence or absence of collisions, this study outperforms methods that do not consider topological features. Furthermore, we define a safety region that prevents deadlock and integrate it to define a simulation space that ensures safe and efficient navigation.

Takeaways, Limitations

Takeaways:
We present a novel method for generating explainable and robust safety regions by leveraging topological data analysis.
Improved collision avoidance and deadlock prevention performance over existing methods.
Presenting new possibilities for safe and efficient social navigation.
Limitations:
Lack of validation for application of the proposed method to actual robotic systems.
There is a need to evaluate generalization performance across diverse social environments and complex situations.
Further research is needed on the optimal setting of the $\varepsilon$ value.
The need to consider features other than topological features.
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