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Shili Sheng, Pian Yu, David Parker, Marta Kwiatkowska and Lu Feng.
Safe POMDP Online Planning among Dynamic Agents via Adaptive Conformal Prediction.
Technical report , arXiv:2404.15557.
2024.
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https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2404.15557
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Abstract.
Online planning for partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) provides efficient techniques for robot decision-making under uncertainty. However, existing methods fall short of preventing safety violations in dynamic environments. This work presents a novel safe POMDP online planning approach that offers probabilistic safety guarantees amidst environments populated by multiple dynamic agents. Our approach utilizes data-driven trajectory prediction models of dynamic agents and applies Adaptive Conformal Prediction (ACP) for assessing the uncertainties in these predictions. Leveraging the obtained ACP-based trajectory predictions, our approach constructs safety shields on-the-fly to prevent unsafe actions within POMDP online planning. Through experimental evaluation in various dynamic environments using real-world pedestrian trajectory data, the proposed approach has been shown to effectively maintain probabilistic safety guarantees while accommodating up to hundreds of dynamic agents.
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