Evaluation of socially-aware robot navigation

Y Gao, CM Huang - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022 - frontiersin.org
As mobile robots are increasingly introduced into our daily lives, it grows ever more
imperative that these robots navigate with and among people in a safe and socially …

How much distance do humans keep toward robots? Literature review, meta-analysis, and theoretical considerations on personal space in human-robot interaction

B Leichtmann, V Nitsch - Journal of environmental Psychology, 2020 - Elsevier
With the development of mobile robots, research on interpersonal distances grew by a new
body of research introducing new opportunities to environmental psychology. In this review …

Determining shape and size of personal space of a human when passed by a robot

MME Neggers, RH Cuijpers, PAM Ruijten… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Autonomous mobile robots that operate in environments with people are expected to be
able to deal with human proxemics and social distances. Previous research investigated …

“To approach humans?”: A unified framework for approaching pose prediction and socially aware robot navigation

XT Truong, TD Ngo - IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a unified framework for approaching pose prediction, and socially aware robot
navigation, which enables a mobile service robot to safely and socially approach a dynamic …

[PDF][PDF] Prevention and resolution of conflicts in social navigation–a survey

R Mirsky, X Xiao, J Hart, P Stone - arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.12113, 2021 - cs.utexas.edu
With the approaching goal of having robots collaborate in shared human-robot
environments, navigation in this context becomes both crucial and desirable. Recent …

A cloud robotics solution to improve social assistive robots for active and healthy aging

M Bonaccorsi, L Fiorini, F Cavallo, A Saffiotti… - International Journal of …, 2016 - Springer
Technological innovation in robotics and ICT represents an effective solution to tackle the
challenge of providing social sustainable care services for the ageing population. The recent …

What is Appropriate? On the assessment of human-robot proxemics for casual encounters in closed environments

NE Neef, S Zabel, M Lauckner, S Otto - International Journal of Social …, 2023 - Springer
Increasingly autonomous robots become more and more prevalent in daily life and their
proximity to humans may affect human well-being and comfort. Consequently, researchers …

Dynamic social zone based mobile robot navigation for human comfortable safety in social environments

XT Truong, TD Ngo - International Journal of Social Robotics, 2016 - Springer
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 …

Social roles and baseline proxemic preferences for a domestic service robot

KL Koay, DS Syrdal, M Ashgari-Oskoei… - International Journal of …, 2014 - Springer
The goal of our research is to develop socially acceptable behavior for domestic robots in a
setting where a user and the robot are sharing the same physical space and interact with …

Appgan: Generative adversarial networks for generating robot approach behaviors into small groups of people

F Yang, C Peters - 2019 28th IEEE International Conference on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robots that navigate to approach free-standing conversational groups should do so in a
safe and socially acceptable manner. This is challenging since it not only requires the robot …