Bridging Requirements, Planning, and Evaluation: A Review of Social Robot Navigation

J Karwowski, W Szynkiewicz… - Sensors, 2024 - mdpi.com
Navigation lies at the core of social robotics, enabling robots to navigate and interact
seamlessly in human environments. The primary focus of human-aware robot navigation is …

SemNav-HRO: A target-driven semantic navigation strategy with human–robot–object ternary fusion

B Chen, S Lu, P Zhong, Y Cui, Y Liang… - Engineering Applications of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Target-Driven Semantic Navigation (TDSN) shows great potential to be applied in
intelligent domestic assistants supporting humans with daily activities. Although numerous …

Socially acceptable bipedal robot navigation via social zonotope network model predictive control

A Shamsah, K Agarwal, N Katta, A Raju… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This study addresses the challenge of social bipedal navigation in a dynamic, human-
crowded environment, a research area largely underexplored in legged robot navigation …

Investigating Opportunities for Active Smart Assistants to Initiate Interactions With Users

J Leusmann, J Wiese, M Ziarko, S Mayer - Proceedings of the 22nd …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Passive voice assistants such as Alexa are widespread, responding to user requests.
However, due to the rise of domestic robots, we envision active smart assistants initiating …

Novel Noise-Tolerant Recurrent Neural Network Adaptive Control of Preoperative Pose for Cranial Neurosurgery Robot With Physical Constraints

Z Cui, Z Li, M Chen, Z Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The preoperative pose manual adjustment of the cranial neurosurgery robot (CNR) has
defects such as low operation efficiency and great difficulty, and the research on the …

Time-to-Collision Based Social Force Model for Intelligent Agents on Shared Public Spaces

A Jafari, YC Liu - International Journal of Social Robotics, 2024 - Springer
Intelligent transportation modes such as autonomous robots and electric scooters with ride
assistance are gaining popularity, but their integration into public spaces poses challenges …

STC-TEB: Spatial-Temporally Complete Trajectory Generation Based on Incremental Optimization

Z Zhu, Q Zhang, Y Song, Y Yang… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the context of indoor crowd navigation for mobile robots, the generation of spatial-
temporally complete trajectories gives the robot a wider range of options, thereby improving …

Improve Computing Efficiency and Motion Safety by Analyzing Environment With Graphics

Q Zhang, S Wu, Y Jia, Y Xu, J Liu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Exploring topologically distinctive trajectories provides more options for robot motion
planning. Since computing time grows greatly with environment complexity, improving …

Human-Aware Robot Trajectory Planning with Hybrid Candidate Generation: Leveraging a Pedestrian Motion Model for Diverse Trajectories

J Karwowski, W Szynkiewicz - 2024 13th International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robots navigating in populated dynamic environments require dedicated motion planning
algorithms. We propose a human-aware local trajectory planner that alleviates the …

" One Soy Latte for Daniel": Visual and Movement Communication of Intention from a Robot Waiter to a Group of Customers

SC Hong, L Tian, A Cosgun… - 2024 33rd IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Service robots are increasingly employed in the hospitality industry for delivering food
orders in restaurants. However, in current practice the robot often arrives at a fixed location …