Despite the relatively young age of Human–Robot Interaction (HRI) as a field, there is a
large volume of research on advances in robot hardware, software and behavior. The goal …

There is a growing interest in using social robots in public spaces for indoor and outdoor
applications. The threat landscape is an important research area being investigated and …

As more robots are being deployed into human environments, a human-aware navigation
planner needs to handle multiple contexts that occur in indoor and outdoor environments. In …

In the last decades, robotic solutions have been introduced in agriculture to improve the
efficiency of tasks such as spraying, plowing, and seeding. However, for a more complex …

The aim of this paper is to improve the dynamic window approach algorithm for mobile
robots by implementing a prediction window with a fuzzy inference system to adapt to fixed …

Human-aware robot navigation planning enables robots to traverse human-occupied
spaces socially. However, evaluating and benchmarking the 'human awareness' of such …

This work presents a novel stable controller for the person-following task that includes social
considerations for a differential drive mobile robot equipped with an RGB-D camera and a …

To date, robotic applications in agriculture are still a challenging topic, which has been
studied mainly for large farms. However, groves in particular, require tasks, such as picking …

In this paper we propose a new method of encoding social norms and rules into sampling-
based motion planners. Inspired from the social force model (SFM), we modify and use it as …

Deploying mobile robots in construction sites to collaborate with workers or perform
automated tasks such as surveillance and inspections carries the potential to greatly …