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Rheos: Modelling Continuous Motion Dynamics in Hierarchical 3D Scene Graphs

arXiv 2603.20239 ↗First posted 9 Mar 2026cs.RO cs.CVcited by 2

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Abstract (arXiv)

3D Scene Graphs (3DSGs) provide hierarchical, multi-resolution abstractions that encode the geometric and semantic structure of an environment, yet their treatment of dynamics remains limited to tracking individual agents. Maps of Dynamics (MoDs) complement this by modeling aggregate motion patterns, but rely on uniform grid discretizations that lack semantic grounding and scale poorly. We present Rheos, a framework that explicitly embeds continuous directional motion models into an additional dynamics layer of a hierarchical 3DSG that enhances the navigational properties of the graph. Each dynamics node maintains a semi-wrapped Gaussian mixture model that captures multimodal directional flow as a principled probability distribution with explicit uncertainty, replacing the discrete histograms used in prior work. To enable online operation, Rheos employs reservoir sampling for bounded-memory observation buffers, parallel per-cell model updates and a principled Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) sweep that selects the optimal number of mixture components, reducing per-update initialization cost from quadratic to linear in the number of samples. Evaluated across four spatial resolutions in a simulated pedestrian environment, Rheos consistently outperforms the discrete baseline under continuous as well as unfavorable discrete metrics. We release our implementation as open source.

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References · 14

  1. 2022Hydra: A Real-time Spatial Perception System for 3D Scene Graph Construction and Optimizationcited by 175
  2. 2021Kimera: from SLAM to Spatial Perception with 3D Dynamic Scene Graphscited by 144
  3. 20203D Dynamic Scene Graphs: Actionable Spatial Perception with Places, Objects, and Humanscited by 141
  4. 2023Foundations of Spatial Perception for Robotics: Hierarchical Representations and Real-time Systemscited by 60
  5. 2022TASKOGRAPHY: Evaluating robot task planning over large 3D scene graphscited by 59
  6. 2021Hierarchical Representations and Explicit Memory: Learning Effective Navigation Policies on 3D Scene Graphs using Graph Neural Networkscited by 50
  7. 2023Collaborative Dynamic 3D Scene Graphs for Automated Drivingcited by 34
  8. 2024OpenGraph: Open-Vocabulary Hierarchical 3D Graph Representation in Large-Scale Outdoor Environmentscited by 22
  9. 2023Hydra-Multi: Collaborative Online Construction of 3D Scene Graphs with Multi-Robot Teamscited by 21
  10. 2022Pedestrian-Robot Interactions on Autonomous Crowd Navigation: Reactive Control Methods and Evaluation Metricscited by 5
  11. 2025Aion: Towards Hierarchical 4D Scene Graphs with Temporal Flow Dynamicscited by 5
  12. 2021Crowd against the machine: A simulation-based benchmark tool to evaluate and compare robot capabilities to navigate a human crowdcited by 4
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  1. 2022Bayesian Floor Field: Transferring people flow predictions across environmentscited by 4
  2. 2026EgoMoD: Predicting Global Maps of Dynamics from Local Egocentric Observationscited by 2

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