Spencer Planning System
An approach to planning in dynamic environments
During the EU project SPENCER, I was jointly responsible for the motion planning capabilities of a new socially aware passenger guidance robot. SPENCER’s research covers key areas of interactive intelligent systems such as perception of people and groups of people in sensory data, normative human behavior learning and modeling, socially-aware mapping, task, motion and interaction planning in unstructured real-world environments. In a final demonstration scenario we deployed a fully autonomous mobile robot for smart passengers flow management at the Amsterdam Schiphol Airport
The robot Spencer navigating through the crowded Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam. The planning system makes choices based on the homotopy classes knowledge.