Demonstrating Arena 5.0: A Photorealistic ROS2 Simulation Framework for Developing and Benchmarking Social Navigation
Building upon the foundations laid by our previous work, this paper introduces Arena 5.0, the fifth iteration of our framework for robotics social navigation development and benchmarking.
Key points
- Arena 5.0 provides three main contributions: 1) The complete integration of NVIDIA Isaac Gym, enabling photorealistic simulations and more efficient training.
- It seamlessly incorporates Isaac Gym into the Arena platform, allowing the use of existing modules such as randomized environment generation, evaluation tools, ROS2 support, and the integration of planners, robot models, and APIs within Isaac Gym.
- 2) A comprehensive benchmark of state-of-the-art social navigation strategies, evaluated on a diverse set of generated and customized worlds and scenarios of varying difficulty levels.
- 3) Extensive scenario generation and task planning modules for improved and customizable generation of social navigation scenarios, such as emergency and rescue situations.
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- [1]Demonstrating Arena 5.0: A Photorealistic ROS2 Simulation Framework for Developing and Benchmarking Social NavigationarXiv (AI, ML, NLP, CV, robotics, multi-agent) · Oct 8, 04:17 AM
Building upon the foundations laid by our previous work, this paper introduces Arena 5.0, the fifth iteration of our framework for robotics social navigation development and benchmarking.
Arena 5.0 provides three main contributions: 1) The complete integration of NVIDIA Isaac Gym, enabling photorealistic simulations and more efficient training.
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