Sonic: Safe social navigation with adaptive conformal inference and constrained reinforcement learning

J Yao, X Zhang, Y **a, Z Wang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Reinforcement Learning (RL) has enabled social robots to generate trajectories without
human-designed rules or interventions, which makes it more effective than hard-coded …

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 …

Towards Human-Centered Construction Robotics: A Reinforcement Learning-Driven Companion Robot for Contextually Assisting Carpentry Workers

Y Wu, J Wei, J Oh, DC Llach - 2024 IEEE/RSJ International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the dynamic construction industry, traditional robotic integration has primarily focused on
automating specific tasks, often overlooking the complexity and variability of human aspects …

Learning Dynamic Weight Adjustment for Spatial-Temporal Trajectory Planning in Crowd Navigation

M Cao, X Xu, Y Yang, J Li, T **, P Wang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Robot navigation in dense human crowds poses a significant challenge due to the
complexity of human behavior in dynamic and obstacle-rich environments. In this work, we …

Semi-Supervised Unconstrained Head Pose Estimation in the Wild

H Zhou, F Jiang, J Yuan, Y Rui, H Lu, K Jia - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Existing research on unconstrained in-the-wild head pose estimation suffers from the flaws
of its datasets, which consist of either numerous samples by non-realistic synthesis or …

OLiVia-Nav: An online lifelong vision language approach for mobile robot social navigation

S Narasimhan, AH Tan, D Choi, G Nejat - arxiv preprint arxiv:2409.13675, 2024 - arxiv.org
Service robots in human-centered environments such as hospitals, office buildings, and long-
term care homes need to navigate while adhering to social norms to ensure the safety and …

[HTML][HTML] Guessing human intentions to avoid dangerous situations in caregiving robots

N Zapata, G Pérez, L Bonilla, P Núñez, P Bachiller… - Applied Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
The integration of robots into social environments necessitates their ability to interpret
human intentions and anticipate potential outcomes accurately. This capability is particularly …

THUD++: Large-Scale Dynamic Indoor Scene Dataset and Benchmark for Mobile Robots

Z Li, F Li, W Zhang, Z Zheng, X Liu, Y Liu… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Most existing mobile robotic datasets primarily capture static scenes, limiting their utility for
evaluating robotic performance in dynamic environments. To address this, we present a …

Human-Robot Collaborative Minimum Time Search Through Sub-Priors in Ant Colony Optimization

O Gil, A Sanfeliu - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) has evolved into a highly promising issue owing to the
latest breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), among …

SNGNN2D-v2: A GNN-Based Model for the Generation of Human-Aware Cost Maps in Dynamic Environments

D Rodriguez-Criado, P Bachiller-Burgos… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
Navigating dynamic, human-populated environments is a critical challenge for mobile
robots, as they must balance effective pathfinding with minimizing social disruption. Cost …