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 …

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 …

The human-robot interaction community has developed many methods for robots to navigate
safely and socially alongside humans. However, experimental procedures to evaluate these …

Mobile robot autonomous path planning is an essential factor for its wide deployment in real-
world applications. Conventional sampling-based algorithms have gained tremendous …

Mobile robots struggle to integrate seamlessly in crowded environments such as pedestrian
scenes, often disrupting human activity. One obstacle preventing their smooth integration is …

State-of-the-art social robot navigation algorithms often lack a thorough experimental
validation in human environments: simulated evaluations are often conducted under …

Humans expect their collaborators to look beyond the explicit interpretation of their words.
Implicature is a common form of implicit communication that arises in natural language …

With the service robots are well used in more and more indoor environments, autonomous
navigation in such a human environment has been explored in recent decades. Different …

Robot motion planners are increasingly being equipped with an intriguing property: human
likeness. This property can enhance human–robot interactions and is essential for a …

Intent-expressive robot motion has been shown to result in increased efficiency and reduced
planning efforts for copresent humans. Existing frameworks for generating intent-expressive …