Pedestrian Simulator

ROS packages for a 2D pedestrian simulator based on social force model of Helbing et. al. The implementation is based on an extended version of Christian Gloor's libpedsim library which has been extended to include additional behaviors and activities. This packages is useful for robot navigation experiments with crowded scenes which are hard to acquire in practice.

Features

Individual walking using social force model for very large crowds in real time
Group walking using the extended social force model
Social activities simulation
Sensors simulation (point clouds in robot frame for people and walls)
XML based scene design
Extensive visualization using Rviz
Option to connect with gazebo for physics reasoning

Requirements

ROS with the visualization stack (currently tested on hydro, indigo, kinetic ). For melodic, see the branch melodic-dev
C++11 compiler

Installation

The default version is now melodic. For kinetic please check out the branch kinetic which still depends on Qt4.

cd [workspace]/src
git clone https://github.com/srl-freiburg/pedsim_ros.git  
cd pedsim_ros
git submodule update --init --recursive
cd ../..
catkin build -c  # or catkin_make

Sample usage

roslaunch pedsim_simulator simple_pedestrians.launch

Licence

The core libpedsim is licensed under LGPL. The ROS integration and extensions are licensed under BSD.

Developers

Billy Okal
Timm Linder

Contributors

Dizan Vasquez
Sven Wehner
Omar Islas
Luigi Palmieri

The package is a work in progress mainly used in research prototyping. Pull requests and/or issues are highly encouraged.

Acknowledgements

These packages have been developed in part during the EU FP7 project SPENCER