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 …

Pedestrian detection has a wide range of application prospects in many fields such as
unmanned driving, intelligent monitoring, robot, etc., and has always been a hot issue in the …

Intelligent systems are increasingly part of our everyday lives and have been integrated
seamlessly to the point where it is difficult to imagine a world without them. Physical …

Path planning is the most fundamental necessity for autonomous mobile robots.
Traditionally, the path planning problem was solved using analytical methods, but these …

Social robotics is an emerging area that is becoming present in social spaces, by
introducing autonomous social robots. Social robots offer services, perform tasks, and …

Autonomous urban robots were introduced in Milton Keynes (MK), UK, in 2018 to automate
on-demand grocery delivery. Two years later the COVID-19 pandemic rendered routine …

Navigating delivery robot along the sidewalk safely and robustly in a campus environment is
extremely challenging due to the narrow motion space, appearance changes and unstable …

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 …

In 2018" Starship" grocery delivery robots were first introduced in Milton Keynes (MK), a new
town in England, to automate a task that is difficult to perform in a cost-effective manner by …

Recent protocols and metrics for training and evaluating autonomous robot navigation
through crowds are inconsistent due to diversified definitions of" social behavior". This …