Publications

The Arena Platform and its extensions have been incrementally developed and published through a number of publications.

Arena 4.0 (ICRA 2024, Atlanta, USA)

@inproceedings{
  arena:rosnav4.0,
  title={Arena 4.0: A Comprehensive ROS2 Development, Benchmarking Platform for Human-centric Navigation Using Generative-Model-based Environment Generation},
  author={Volodymyr Shcherbyna, Linh Kästner, Diego Diaz, Huu Giang Nguyen, Maximilian Ho-Kyoung Schreff, Tim Lenz, Jonas Kreutz, Ahmed Martban, Huajian Zeng, Harold Soh},
  year={2024},
}

Arena 3.0 (RSS 2024, Delft, Netherlands)

@inproceedings{
  arena:rosnav3.0,
  title={Demonstrating Arena 3.0: Advancing Social Navigation in Collaborative and Highly Dynamic Environments},
  author={Linh Kästner, Volodymyr Shcherbyna, Huajian Zeng, Tuan Anh Le, Maximilian Ho-Kyung Schreff, Halid Osmaev, Nam Truong Tran, Diego Diaz, Jan Golebiowski, Harold Soh, Jens Lambrecht}, booktitle={Robotics: Science and Systems},
  year={2024},
}

Arena-Rosnav 2.0 (IROS 2023, Detroit, USA)

@article{kastner2023arena,
  title={Arena-Rosnav 2.0: A Development and Benchmarking Platform for Robot Navigation in Highly Dynamic Environments},
  author={K{\"a}stner, Linh and Carstens, Reyk and Zeng, Huajian and Kmiecik, Jacek and Le, Tuan Anh and Bhuiyan, Teham and Meinardus, Boris and Lambrecht, Jens},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.10023},
  year={2023}
}

Arena Web (R:SS 2023, Daegu, Korea)

@article{kastner2023arena,
  title={Arena-Web--A Web-based Development and Benchmarking Platform for Autonomous Navigation Approaches},
  author={K{\"a}stner, Linh and Carstens, Reyk and Liebig, Christopher and Shcherbyna, Volodymyr and Nahrworld, Lena and Lee, Subhin and Lambrecht, Jens},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.02898},
  year={2023}
}

Arena Bench (RA-L + IROS 2022, Kyoto, Japan)

@article{kastner2022arena,
  title={Arena-bench: A benchmarking suite for obstacle avoidance approaches in highly dynamic environments},
  author={K{\"a}stner, Linh and Bhuiyan, Teham and Le, Tuan Anh and Treis, Elias and Cox, Johannes and Meinardus, Boris and Kmiecik, Jacek and Carstens, Reyk and Pichel, Duc and Fatloun, Bassel and others},
  journal={IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters},
  volume={7},
  number={4},
  pages={9477--9484},
  year={2022},
  publisher={IEEE}
}

Arena Rosnav (IROS 2021, Praque, Czech Republic)

@inproceedings{kastner2021arena,
  title={Arena-Rosnav: Towards Deployment of Deep-Reinforcement-Learning-Based Obstacle Avoidance into Conventional Autonomous Navigation Systems},
  author={K{\"a}stner, Linh and Buiyan, Teham and Jiao, Lei and Le, Tuan Anh and Zhao, Xinlin and Shen, Zhengcheng and Lambrecht, Jens},
  booktitle={2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
  pages={6456--6463},
  organization={IEEE}
}

Publications on Specific Extensions

We also published a number of extensions and functionalities such as the All-in-one planner as seperate publications. Here is a list of the most relevant publications so far:

All-In-One Planner (ICRA 2022, Philadelphia, USA)

@inproceedings{linh2022all,
  title={All-in-one: A drl-based control switch combining state-of-the-art navigation planners},
  author={Linh, KU and Cox, Johannes and Buiyan, Teham and Lambrecht, Jens and others},
  booktitle={2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  pages={2861--2867},
  year={2022},
  organization={IEEE}
}

Human Following and guiding (ICRA 2022, Philadelphia, USA)

@inproceedings{kastner2022human,
  title={Human-following and-guiding in crowded environments using semantic deep-reinforcement-learning for mobile service robots},
  author={K{\"a}stner, Linh and Fatloun, Bassel and Shen, Zhengcheng and Gawrisch, Daniel and Lambrecht, Jens},
  booktitle={2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  pages={833--839},
  year={2022},
  organization={IEEE}
}