A survey on socially aware robot navigation: Taxonomy and future challenges

PT Singamaneni, P Bachiller-Burgos… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Socially aware robot navigation is gaining popularity with the increase in delivery and
assistive robots. The research is further fueled by a need for socially aware navigation skills …

Defining, designing and distinguishing artificial companions: A systematic literature review

A Rogge - International Journal of Social Robotics, 2023 - Springer
The present study systematically reviewed scientific literature addressing the concept of
artificial companions (ACs). The dataset, which encompasses 22 years of research, was …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing alternatives of including social robots in urban transport using fuzzy trigonometric operators based decision-making model

M Deveci, D Pamucar, I Gokasar, BB Zaidan… - … Forecasting and Social …, 2023 - Elsevier
Current trends point to a not-too-distant future with qualitatively advanced interactions
between humans and social robots. It is critical to consider the possibility of forming …

Social robot navigation tasks: Combining machine learning techniques and social force model

Ó Gil, A Garrell, A Sanfeliu - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Social robot navigation in public spaces, buildings or private houses is a difficult problem
that is not well solved due to environmental constraints (buildings, static objects etc.) …

Social cues in the autonomous navigation of indoor mobile robots

AK Reddy, V Malviya, R Kala - International Journal of Social Robotics, 2021 - Springer
Robots are now operating in workspaces occupied by humans and the robots often need to
avoid people while travelling to their desired goal. Humans follow some navigation …

Human-robot collaborative multi-agent path planning using monte carlo tree search and social reward sources

M Dalmasso, A Garrell, JE Domínguez… - … on robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The collaboration between humans and robots in an object search task requires the
achievement of shared plans obtained from communicating and negotiating. In this work, we …

Socially aware robot navigation framework: Where and how to approach people in dynamic social environments

TD Ngo, XT Truong - IEEE Transactions on Automation …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a human approaching robot navigation framework that enables a
mobile service robot to (i) estimate a socially optimal approaching pose, and (ii) navigate …

An approach to deploy interactive robotic simulators on the web for hri experiments: Results in social robot navigation

N Tsoi, M Hussein, O Fugikawa… - 2021 IEEE/RSJ …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Evaluation of social robot navigation inherently requires human input due to its qualitative
nature. Motivated by the need to scale human evaluation, we propose a general method for …

People's adaptive side-by-side model evolved to accompany groups of people by social robots

E Repiso, A Garrell, A Sanfeliu - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The presented method implements a robot accompaniment in an adaptive side-by-side
formation of a single person or a group of people. The method enhances our previous robot …

Laser-based side-by-side following for human-following robots

H Yao, H Dai, E Zhao, P Liu… - 2021 IEEE/RSJ …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A mobile robot that follows behind humans in structured environments has to face the
challenge of full occlusion caused by the walls when the target person makes a turn at the …