We present Covy -- a robotic platform that promotes social distancing during pandemics like COVID-19. Covy features a novel compound vision system that enables it to detect social distancing breaches up to 16m away. Covy navigates its surroundings autonomously using a hybrid navigation stack that combines Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL)and a probabilistic localization method. We built the complete system and evaluated Covy's performance through extensive sets of experiments both in simulated and realistic environments. Amongst others, our results show that the hybrid navigation stack is more robust compared to a pure DRL-based solution.
翻译:我们展示了Covy -- -- 一个机器人平台,在COVID-19等流行病期间促进社会疏远。Covy有一个新的复合视觉系统,使其能够在16米之外探测到社会疏远的断裂现象。Covy自主地在周围航行,使用混合导航堆,将深强化学习(DRL)和一种概率定位方法结合起来。我们通过在模拟和现实环境中进行一系列广泛的实验,建立了完整的系统,并评估了Covy的表现。我们的结果显示,混合导航堆比纯粹的基于DRL的解决方案更强大。