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If a vehicle has to drive autonomously in an area with mostly pedestrian traffic and thus needs to share the free space with pedestrians it has to safely navigate in this environment. A pedestrian area lacks fixed lanes and definite traffic rules which leads to more complex paths. Classical path planning in a partially known environment with multiple moving pedestrians is a hard planning problem. Just the task of accurately predicting the individual path of multiple pedestrians in a group accounting for all interactions between the different persons over more than a few seconds is as good as impossible. Using this faulty prediction as a foundation for a path planning algorithm will produce a flawed plan. However such an environment is easy for humans or animals to navigate, avoidance of other persons and moving in a group of pedestrians happens almost unconsciously. In this paper a simple way of autonomously navigating such an environment by using a pure reactive control based on a few simple rules is explored. This method doesn’t need a completely known environment, doesn’t plan ahead, is simple to implement and can react quick to changes in the environment.
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Steinhardt, F., Strand, M., Zöllner, J.M. (2013). Autonomous Navigation of a Personal Transporter within Moving Human Groups Using Reactive Control. In: Lee, S., Cho, H., Yoon, KJ., Lee, J. (eds) Intelligent Autonomous Systems 12. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 193. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33926-4_7
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