[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of socially-aware robot navigation

Y Gao, CM Huang - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022 - frontiersin.org
As mobile robots are increasingly introduced into our daily lives, it grows ever more
imperative that these robots navigate with and among people in a safe and socially …

Human-robot teaming: grand challenges

M Natarajan, E Seraj, B Altundas, R Paleja, S Ye… - Current Robotics …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Current real-world interaction between humans and robots is
extremely limited. We present challenges that, if addressed, will enable humans and robots …

Safe planning in dynamic environments using conformal prediction

L Lindemann, M Cleaveland, G Shim… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a framework for planning in unknown dynamic environments with probabilistic
safety guarantees using conformal prediction. Particularly, we design a model predictive …

Principles and guidelines for evaluating social robot navigation algorithms

A Francis, C Pérez-d'Arpino, C Li, F Xia, A Alahi… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
A major challenge to deploying robots widely is navigation in human-populated
environments, commonly referred to as social robot navigation. While the field of social …

Sean 2.0: Formalizing and generating social situations for robot navigation

N Tsoi, A Xiang, P Yu, SS Sohn… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present SEAN 2.0, an open-source system designed to advance social navigation via
the training and benchmarking of navigation policies in varied social contexts. A key …

Learning model predictive controllers with real-time attention for real-world navigation

X Xiao, T Zhang, K Choromanski, E Lee… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Despite decades of research, existing navigation systems still face real-world challenges
when deployed in the wild, eg, in cluttered home environments or in human-occupied public …

Social momentum: Design and evaluation of a framework for socially competent robot navigation

C Mavrogiannis, P Alves-Oliveira… - ACM Transactions on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Mobile robots struggle to integrate seamlessly in crowded environments such as pedestrian
scenes, often disrupting human activity. One obstacle preventing their smooth integration is …

A survey on socially aware robot navigation: Taxonomy and future challenges

PT Singamaneni, P Bachiller-Burgos… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Socially aware robot navigation is gaining popularity with the increase in delivery and
assistive robots. The research is further fueled by a need for socially aware navigation skills …

Autonomous ground navigation in highly constrained spaces: Lessons learned from the benchmark autonomous robot navigation challenge at icra 2022 [competitions …

X Xiao, Z Xu, Z Wang, Y Song, G Warnell… - IEEE Robotics & …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Benchmark Autonomous Robot Navigation (BARN) Challenge took place at the 2022
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), in Philadelphia, PA …

Core challenges in embodied vision-language planning

J Francis, N Kitamura, F Labelle, X Lu, I Navarro… - Journal of Artificial …, 2022 - jair.org
Recent advances in the areas of multimodal machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI)
have led to the development of challenging tasks at the intersection of Computer Vision …