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Guest Editorial: Introduction to the Special Issue on Long-Term Human Motion Prediction

Journal

IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS
Volume 6, Issue 3, Pages 5613-5617

Publisher

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2021.3077964

Keywords

Human-robot interaction; Human motion prediction; motion planning

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Funding

  1. European Union [732737]

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Long term human motion prediction is crucial for advanced autonomous systems to operate effectively in crowded and dynamic environments. Utilizing predictive techniques can enhance planning, control, perception, and human-robot interaction, ultimately leading to smoother and more accurate robot motion. The integration of deep learning architectures improves the accuracy of prediction modules connected with detection, segmentation, and tracking, enhancing different inference tasks.
The articles in this special section focus on long term human motion prediction. This represents a key ability for advanced autonomous systems, especially if they operate in densely crowded and highly dynamic environments. In those settings understanding and anticipating human movements is fundamental for robust long-term operation of robotic systems and safe human-robot collaboration. Foreseeing how a scene with multiple agents evolves over time and incorporating predictions in a proactive manner allows for novel ways of planning and control, active perception, or humanrobot interaction. Recent planning and control approaches use predictive techniques to better cope with the dynamics of the environment, thus allowing the generation of smoother and more legible robot motion. Predictions can be provided as input to the planning or optimization algorithm (e.g. as a cost term or heuristic function), or as additional dimension to consider in the problem formulation (leading to an increased computational complexity). Recent perception techniques deeply interconnect prediction modules with detection, segmentation and tracking, to generally increase the accuracy of different inference tasks, i.e. filtering, predicting. As also indicated by some of the scientific works accepted in this special issue, novel deep learning architectures allow better interleaving of the aforementioned units.

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