Evaluation of socially-aware robot navigation

Y Gao, CM Huang - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022 - frontiersin.org
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 …

Graph relational reinforcement learning for mobile robot navigation in large-scale crowded environments

Z Liu, Y Zhai, J Li, G Wang, Y Miao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile robot autonomous navigation in large-scale environments with crowded dynamic
objects and static obstacles is still an essential yet challenging task. Recent works have …

Group-based motion prediction for navigation in crowded environments

A Wang, C Mavrogiannis… - Conference on Robot …, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
We focus on the problem of planning the motion of a robot in a dynamic multiagent
environment such as a pedestrian scene. Enabling the robot to navigate safely and in a …

Multiparty interaction between humans and socially interactive agents

S Gillet, M Vázquez, C Peters, F Yang… - The Handbook on Socially …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
While most research has focused on one-on-one interactions, Socially Interactive Agents
(SIAs) for multiparty interaction have received increasingly more atten tion in the past years …

A dataset of human and robot approach behaviors into small free-standing conversational groups

F Yang, Y Gao, R Ma, S Zojaji, G Castellano, C Peters - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The analysis and simulation of the interactions that occur in group situations is important
when humans and artificial agents, physical or virtual, must coordinate when inhabiting …

Monocular person localization with lidar fusion for social navigation

S Dogru, CA Silva, L Marques - 2023 European Conference on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Smooth social navigation requires not only detection of the people around the robot, but also
accurate localization of the people, a process difficult to achieve with a single sensing …

Learning a group-aware policy for robot navigation

K Katyal, Y Gao, J Markowitz, S Pohland… - 2022 IEEE/RSJ …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Human-aware robot navigation promises a range of applications in which mobile robots
bring versatile assistance to people in common human environments. While prior research …

Impact of trajectory generation methods on viewer perception of robot approaching group behaviors

F Yang, W Yin, M Björkman… - 2020 29th IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile robots that approach free-standing conversational groups to join them should
behave in a safe and socially-acceptable way. Existing trajectory generation methods focus …

Mobile robot navigation in dynamic environments taking into account obstacle motion in Costmap construction

CA Silva, S Dogru, L Marques - Iberian Robotics conference, 2022 - Springer
An autonomous mobile robot must be capable of navigating through its environment safely
in a collision-free manner. This is particularly challenging in dynamic environments, where …

Towards Single Source Domain Generalisation in Trajectory Prediction: A Motion Prior based Approach

R Huang, A Tompkins, M Pagnucco… - … on Lifelong Learning …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Trajectory prediction is an important task in many real-world applications. However, data-
driven approaches typically suffer from dramatic performance degradation when applied to …