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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Safe navigation is a fundamental capability for robots that move among pedestrians. The
traditional approach in robotics to attain such a capability has treated pedestrians as moving …

The vision-based mechanisms that pedestrians in social groups use to navigate in dynamic
environments, avoiding obstacles and each others, have been subject to a large amount of …

With the approaching goal of having robots collaborate in shared human-robot
environments, navigation in this context becomes both crucial and desirable. Recent …

In this article, the problem of real-time robot exploration and map building (active SLAM) is
considered. A single stereo vision camera is exploited by a fully autonomous robot to …

As robots tend to establish their presence in every day human environments the necessity
for them to attain socially acceptable behavior is a condition sine qua non. Consequently …

Enabling socially acceptable behavior for situated agents is a major goal of recent robotics
research. Robots should not only operate safely around humans, but also abide by complex …