Social momentum: Design and evaluation of a framework for socially competent robot navigation

C Mavrogiannis, P Alves-Oliveira… - ACM Transactions on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Mobile robots struggle to integrate seamlessly in crowded environments such as pedestrian
scenes, often disrupting human activity. One obstacle preventing their smooth integration is …

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 …

Arena-rosnav: Towards deployment of deep-reinforcement-learning-based obstacle avoidance into conventional autonomous navigation systems

L Kästner, T Buiyan, L Jiao, TA Le… - 2021 IEEE/RSJ …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, mobile robots have become important tools in various industries, especially in
logistics. Deep reinforcement learning emerged as an alternative planning method to …

Social elastic band with prediction and anticipation: Enhancing real-time path trajectory optimization for socially aware robot navigation

G Pérez, N Zapata-Cornejo, P Bustos… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
As social robots are projected to become an integral part of human life in the coming
decades, their ability to adapt movement and trajectory when in proximity to people is …

People's adaptive side-by-side model evolved to accompany groups of people by social robots

E Repiso, A Garrell, A Sanfeliu - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The presented method implements a robot accompaniment in an adaptive side-by-side
formation of a single person or a group of people. The method enhances our previous robot …

Adaptive social planner to accompany people in real-life dynamic environments

E Repiso, A Garrell, A Sanfeliu - International Journal of Social Robotics, 2024 - Springer
Robots must develop the ability to socially navigate in uncontrolled urban environments to
be able to be included in our daily lives. This paper presents a new robot navigation …

Multi-objective deep reinforcement learning for crowd-aware robot navigation with dynamic human preference

G Cheng, Y Wang, L Dong, W Cai, C Sun - Neural Computing and …, 2023 - Springer
The growing development of autonomous systems is driving the application of mobile robots
in crowded environments. These scenarios often require robots to satisfy multiple conflicting …

Social robot navigation through constrained optimization: a comparative study of uncertainty-based objectives and constraints

T Akhtyamov, A Kashirin, A Postnikov… - … Conference on Mobile …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work is dedicated to the study of how uncertainty estimation of the human motion
prediction can be embedded into constrained optimization techniques, such as Model …

[HTML][HTML] Towards goal-directed navigation through combining learning based global and local planners

X Zhou, Y Gao, L Guan - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
Robot navigation is a fundamental problem in robotics and various approaches have been
developed to cope with this problem. Despite the great success of previous approaches …

Enhancing navigational safety in crowded environments using semantic-deep-reinforcement-learning-based navigation

L Kästner, J Lil, Z Shen… - 2022 IEEE International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent navigation among social crowds is an essential aspect of mobile robotics for
applications such as delivery, health care, or assistance. Deep Reinforcement Learning …