Robot navigation in crowded public spaces is a complex task that requires addressing a
variety of engineering and human factors challenges. These challenges have motivated a …

In the era of industrialization and automation, safety is a critical factor that should be
considered during the design and realization of each new system that targets operation in …

Robots that navigate through human crowds need to be able to plan safe, efficient, and
human predictable trajectories. This is a particularly challenging problem as it requires the …

Navigation is a basic skill for autonomous robots. In the last years human–robot interaction
has become an important research field that spans all of the robot capabilities including …

Intelligent systems are increasingly part of our everyday lives and have been integrated
seamlessly to the point where it is difficult to imagine a world without them. Physical …

In the context of a growing interest in modelling human behavior to increase the robots'
social abilities, this article presents a survey related to socially-aware robot navigation. It …

A key skill for mobile robots is the ability to navigate efficiently through their environment. In
the case of social or assistive robots, this involves navigating through human crowds …

We consider the problem of navigating a mobile robot through dense human crowds. We
begin by exploring a fundamental impediment to classical motion planning algorithms called …

In this article, we present a planning framework that uses a combination of implicit (robot
motion) and explicit (visual/audio/haptic feedback) communication during mobile robot …

Mobile robots that navigate in populated environments require the capacity to move
efficiently, safely and in human-friendly ways. In this paper, we address this task using a …