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CROWDBOT SIGNED

Safe Robot Navigation in Dense Crowds

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EC-Contrib. €

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CROWDBOT project word cloud

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Project "CROWDBOT" data sheet

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Coordinator	INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE ENINFORMATIQUE ET AUTOMATIQUE Organization address address: DOMAINE DE VOLUCEAU ROCQUENCOURT city: LE CHESNAY CEDEX postcode: 78153 website: www.inria.fr contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.
Coordinator Country	France [FR]
Project website	http://www.crowdbot.org
Total cost	3˙997˙660 €
EC max contribution	3˙997˙660 € (100%)
Programme	1. H2020-EU.2.1.1. (INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT))
Code Call	H2020-ICT-2017-1
Funding Scheme	RIA
Starting year	2018
Duration (year-month-day)	from 2018-01-01 to 2021-06-30

Partnership

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#	participants	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE ENINFORMATIQUE ET AUTOMATIQUE INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE ENINFORMATIQUE ET AUTOMATIQUE Organization address address: DOMAINE DE VOLUCEAU ROCQUENCOURT city: LE CHESNAY CEDEX postcode: 78153 website: www.inria.fr contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	FR (LE CHESNAY CEDEX)	coordinator	763˙770.00
2	EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH Organization address address: Raemistrasse 101 city: ZUERICH postcode: 8092 website: https://www.ethz.ch/de.html contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	CH (ZUERICH)	participant	706˙521.00
3	UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON Organization address address: GOWER STREET city: LONDON postcode: WC1E 6BT website: n.a. contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	UK (LONDON)	participant	599˙993.00
4	SOFTBANK ROBOTICS EUROPE SOFTBANK ROBOTICS EUROPE Organization address address: RUE COLONEL PIERRE AVIA 43 city: PARIS postcode: 75015 website: www.aldebaran-robotics.com contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	FR (PARIS)	participant	536˙250.00
5	RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN Organization address address: TEMPLERGRABEN 55 city: AACHEN postcode: 52062 website: www.rwth-aachen.de contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	DE (AACHEN)	participant	516˙625.00
6	ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE Organization address address: BATIMENT CE 3316 STATION 1 city: LAUSANNE postcode: 1015 website: www.epfl.ch contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	CH (LAUSANNE)	participant	439˙500.00
7	LOCOMOTEC GMBH LOCOMOTEC GMBH Organization address address: AM HASENBERG 3 city: LANDSBERG AM LECH postcode: 86899 website: n.a. contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	DE (LANDSBERG AM LECH)	participant	435˙000.00

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Project objective

CROWDBOT will enable mobile robots to navigate autonomously and assist humans in crowded areas. Today’s robots are programmed to stop when a human, or any obstacle is too close, to avoid coming into contact while moving. This prevents robots from entering densely frequented areas and performing effectively in these high dynamic environments. CROWDBOT aims to fill in the gap in knowledge on close interactions between robots and humans during navigation tasks. The project considers three realistic scenarios: 1) a semi-autonomous wheelchair that must adapt its trajectory to unexpected movements of people in its vicinity to ensure neither its user nor the pedestrians around it are injured; 2) the commercially available Pepper robot that must navigate in a dense crowd while actively approaching people to assist them; 3) the under development robot cuyBot will adapt to compact crowd, being touched and pushed by people. These scenarios generate numerous ethical and safety concerns which this project addresses through a dedicated Ethical and Safety Advisory Board that will design guidelines for robots engaging in interaction in crowded environments. CROWDBOT gathers the required expertise to develop new robot capabilities to allow robots to move in a safe and socially acceptable manner. This requires achieving step changes in a) sensing abilities to estimate the crowd motion around the robot, b) cognitive abilities for the robot to predict the short term evolution of the crowd state and c) navigation abilities to perform safe motion at close range from people. Through demonstrators and open software components, CROWDBOT will show that safe navigation tasks can be achieved within crowds and will facilitate incorporating its results into mobile robots, with significant scientific and industrial impact. By extending the robot operation field toward crowded environments, we enable possibilities for new applications, such as robot-assisted crowd traffic management.

Deliverables

List of deliverables.
Overview of risks when using robots in crowds	Documents, reports	2020-02-18 11:09:43
Project website	Documents, reports	2020-02-18 11:09:42
First basic integrated robot system prototype in experimental scenario	Documents, reports	2020-02-18 11:09:42
Specification of Scenarios Requirements	Documents, reports	2020-02-18 11:09:43
Report on physical interactions between robots and humans	Documents, reports	2020-02-18 11:09:42
System architecture	Documents, reports	2020-02-18 11:09:42
Experiment protocol and risk assessment	Documents, reports	2020-02-18 11:09:43
Sensor specification	Documents, reports	2020-02-18 11:09:43
Initial Communication, dissemination and exploitation plan	Documents, reports	2020-02-18 11:09:42

Take a look to the deliverables list in detail: detailed list of CROWDBOT deliverables.

Publications

List of publications.
year	authors and title	journal	last update
2019	Jen Jen Chung, Damjan MikliÄ‡, Lorenzo Sabattini, Kagan Tumer, Roland Siegwart The Impact of Agent Definitions and Interactions on Multiagent Learning for Coordination published pages: , ISSN: , DOI:	Proceedings of the 18thInternational Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2019)	2020-02-18
2018	Chandrakant Bothe, Fernando Garcia, Arturo Cruz Maya, Amit Kumar Pandey, Stefan Wermter Towards Dialogue-Based Navigation with Multivariate Adaptation Driven by Intention and Politeness for Social Robots published pages: , ISSN: , DOI:	International Conference on Social Robotics	2020-02-18
2019	Huber, L., Billard, A. and Slotine, J.-J. Avoidance of Convex and Concave Obstacles with Convergence ensured through Contraction published pages: , ISSN: , DOI:	IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)	2020-02-18
2018	Mark Pfeiffer, Giuseppe Paolo, Hannes Sommer, Juan Nieto, Roland Siegwart, Cesar Cadena A Data-driven Model for Interaction-aware Pedestrian Motion Prediction in Object Cluttered Environments published pages: , ISSN: , DOI:	Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)	2020-02-18

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