Person-following by autonomous robots: A categorical overview

MJ Islam, J Hong, J Sattar - The International Journal of …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
A wide range of human–robot collaborative applications in diverse domains, such as
manufacturing, health care, the entertainment industry, and social interactions, require an …

A calibrated force-based model for mixed traffic simulation

Q Chao, P Liu, Y Han, Y Lin, C Li… - IEEE transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Virtual traffic benefits a variety of applications, including video games, traffic engineering,
autonomous driving, and virtual reality. To date, traffic visualization via different simulation …

Force-based heterogeneous traffic simulation for autonomous vehicle testing

Q Chao, X Jin, HW Huang, S Foong… - … on Robotics and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent failures in real-world self-driving tests have suggested a paradigm shift from directly
learning in real-world roads to building a high-fidelity driving simulator as an alternative …

Metrics for evaluating social conformity of crowd navigation algorithms

J Wang, WP Chan, P Carreno-Medrano… - … Robotics and Its …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent protocols and metrics for training and evaluating autonomous robot navigation
through crowds are inconsistent due to diversified definitions of" social behavior". This …

Ar point &click: An interface for setting robot navigation goals

M Gu, E Croft, A Cosgun - International Conference on Social Robotics, 2022 - Springer
This paper considers the problem of designating navigation goal locations for interactive
mobile robots. We investigate a point-and-click interface, implemented with an Augmented …

Safe mobile robot navigation in human-centered environments using a heat map-based path planner

A Ravankar, AA Ravankar, Y Hoshino… - Artificial Life and …, 2020 - Springer
Safe robot navigation in human-centered environments is important to avoid collisions. A
major limitation of the traditional path planning algorithms is that the global path is planned …

Context-aware robot navigation using interactively built semantic maps

A Cosgun, HI Christensen - Paladyn, Journal of Behavioral Robotics, 2018 - degruyter.com
We discuss the process of building semantic maps, how to interactively label entities in
them, and how to use them to enable context-aware navigation behaviors in human …

Seeing thru walls: Visualizing mobile robots in augmented reality

M Gu, A Cosgun, WP Chan… - 2021 30th IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present an approach for visualizing mobile robots through an Augmented Reality
headset when there is no line-of-sight visibility between the robot and the human. Three …

Collaborative planning for mixed-autonomy lane merging

S Bansal, A Cosgun, A Nakhaei… - 2018 IEEE/RSJ …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Driving is a social activity: drivers often indicate their intent to change lanes via motion cues.
We consider mixed-autonomy traffic where a Human-driven Vehicle (HV) and an …

Egocentric Computer Vision for Hands-Free Robotic Wheelchair Navigation

M Kutbi, H Li, Y Chang, B Sun, X Li, C Cai… - Journal of Intelligent & …, 2023 - Springer
In this paper, we present an approach for navigating a robotic wheelchair that provides
users with multiple levels of autonomy and navigation capabilities to fit their individual needs …