VLM-Social-Nav: Socially Aware Robot Navigation through Scoring using Vision-Language Models

D Song, J Liang, A Payandeh, AH Raj… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose VLM-Social-Nav, a novel Vision-Language Model (VLM) based navigation
approach to compute a robot's motion in human-centered environments. Our goal is to make …

Towards Imitation Learning in Real World Unstructured Social Mini-Games in Pedestrian Crowds

R Chandra, H Karnan, N Mehr, P Stone… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Imitation Learning (IL) strategies are used to generate policies for robot motion planning and
navigation by learning from human trajectories. Recently, there has been a lot of excitement …

Hybrid Classical/RL Local Planner for Ground Robot Navigation

VD Sharma, J Lee, M Andrews, I Hadžić - arxiv preprint arxiv:2410.03066, 2024 - arxiv.org
Local planning is an optimization process within a mobile robot navigation stack that
searches for the best velocity vector, given the robot and environment state. Depending on …

Social-LLaVA: Enhancing Robot Navigation through Human-Language Reasoning in Social Spaces

A Payandeh, D Song, M Nazeri, J Liang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Most existing social robot navigation techniques either leverage hand-crafted rules or
human demonstrations to connect robot perception to socially compliant actions. However …