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 …

Intelligent systems are increasingly part of our everyday lives and have been integrated
seamlessly to the point where it is difficult to imagine a world without them. Physical …

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 …

In recent decades, the potential of robots' understanding, perception, learning, and action
has been widely expanded due to the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into almost …

Autonomous robots should operate in real-world dynamic environments and collaborate
with humans in tight spaces. A key component for allowing robots to leave structured lab and …

Traditionally robots are mostly known by society due to the wide use of manipulators, which
are generally placed in controlled environments such as factories. However, with the …

The advances of the Internet of Things, robotics, and Artificial Intelligence, to give just a few
examples, allow us to imagine promising results in the development of smart buildings in the …

We propose an effective human comfortable safety framework enabling a mobile service
robot to navigate safely and socially in social environments. The proposed framework takes …

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 …

In this paper, we present a system for socially aware robot navigation for a wide range of
service tasks in supermarkets. It comprises modules for real-time person detection and …