Developing robotic technologies for use in human society requires ensuring the safety of
robots' navigation behaviors while adhering to pedestrians' expectations and social norms …

In public spaces shared with humans, ensuring multi-robot systems navigate without
collisions while respecting social norms is challenging, particularly with limited …

Humans are well-adept at navigating public spaces shared with others, where current
autonomous mobile robots still struggle: while safely and efficiently reaching their goals …

Moving in dynamic pedestrian environments is one of the important requirements for
autonomous mobile robots. We present a model-based reinforcement learning approach for …

We present SocialGym 2, a multi-agent navigation simulator for social robot research. Our
simulator models multiple autonomous agents, replicating real-world dynamics in complex …

Efficient navigation in a socially compliant manner is an important and challenging task for
robots working in dynamic dense crowd environments. With the development of artificial …

Sociability is essential for modern robots to increase their acceptability in human
environments. Traditional techniques use manually engineered utility functions inspired by …

Human-aware robot navigation promises a range of applications in which mobile robots
bring versatile assistance to people in common human environments. While prior research …

Existing navigation policies for autonomous robots tend to focus on collision avoidance
while ignoring human-robot interactions in social life. For instance, robots can pass along …

Robots moving safely and in a socially compliant manner in dynamic human environments
is an essential benchmark for long-term robot autonomy. However, it is not feasible to learn …