Emergency evacuation describes a complex situation involving time-critical decision-making
by evacuees. Mobile robots are being actively explored as a potential solution to provide …

This research explores evacuee responses to robot-guided evacuation. During the conduct
of a human-robot experiment we trigger a smoke alarm on unsuspecting subjects. The robot …

During the evacuation of a building, the rapid and accurate tracking of human evacuees can
be used by a guide robot to increase the effectiveness of the evacuation [1],[2]. This paper …

This dissertation is dedicated to the scalability challenge in robotics--a crucial issue that has
hindered the extensive use of advanced robotic systems in our everyday scenarios …

Virtual Reality (VR) is a promising testbed for convincing, easy-to-control, and risk-mitigating
robot-guided emergency evacuation experiments compared to physical experiments. Yet, it …