Recent trends in social aware robot navigation: A survey

K Charalampous, I Kostavelis, A Gasteratos - Robotics and Autonomous …, 2017 - Elsevier
With the robots tending to accumulate more and more capabilities beyond the level of acting
in a deterministic fashion, the idea of introducing them into our every day lives seems to be …

Computational human-robot interaction

A Thomaz, G Hoffman, M Cakmak - Foundations and Trends® …, 2016 - nowpublishers.com
We present a systematic survey of computational research in humanrobot interaction (HRI)
over the past decade. Computational HRI is the subset of the field that is specifically …

Determining shape and size of personal space of a human when passed by a robot

MME Neggers, RH Cuijpers, PAM Ruijten… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Autonomous mobile robots that operate in environments with people are expected to be
able to deal with human proxemics and social distances. Previous research investigated …

Socially aware robot navigation system in human-populated and interactive environments based on an adaptive spatial density function and space affordances

A Vega, LJ Manso, DG Macharet, P Bustos… - Pattern Recognition …, 2019 - Elsevier
Traditionally robots are mostly known by society due to the wide use of manipulators, which
are generally placed in controlled environments such as factories. However, with the …

[PDF][PDF] Prevention and resolution of conflicts in social navigation–a survey

R Mirsky, X Xiao, J Hart, P Stone - arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.12113, 2021 - cs.utexas.edu
With the approaching goal of having robots collaborate in shared human-robot
environments, navigation in this context becomes both crucial and desirable. Recent …

Human–robot–environment interaction interface for smart walker assisted gait: AGoRA walker

SD Sierra M, M Garzón, M Múnera, CA Cifuentes - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
The constant growth of the population with mobility impairments has led to the development
of several gait assistance devices. Among these, smart walkers have emerged to provide …

Implementation of a human‐aware robot navigation module for cooperative soft‐fruit harvesting operations

L Guevara, M Hanheide, S Parsons - Journal of Field Robotics, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Conflict Avoidance in Social Navigation—A Survey

R Mirsky, X Xiao, J Hart, P Stone - ACM Transactions on Human-Robot …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
A major goal in robotics is to enable intelligent mobile robots to operate smoothly in shared
human-robot environments. One of the most fundamental capabilities in service of this goal …

Crowd-comfort robot navigation among dynamic environment based on social-stressed deep reinforcement learning

Z Hu, Y Zhao, S Zhang, L Zhou, J Liu - International Journal of Social …, 2022 - Springer
Robot navigation in a dynamic environment is a challenging task because not only the
safety but also the comfort of surrounding pedestrians shall be necessarily considered. This …

Perception of pedestrian avoidance strategies of a self-balancing mobile robot

SY Lo, K Yamane, K Sugiyama - 2019 IEEE/RSJ International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile robots moving in crowded environments have to navigate among pedestrians safely.
Ideally, the way the robot avoids the pedestrians should not only be physically safe but also …