We present SEAN 2.0, an open-source system designed to advance social navigation via
the training and benchmarking of navigation policies in varied social contexts. A key …

This work presents the Human Navigation Simulator (HuNavSim), a novel open-source tool
for the simulation of different human-agent navigation behaviors in scenarios with mobile …

Current approaches in human-aware or social robot navigation address the humans that are
visible to the robot. However, it is also important to address the possible emergences of …

Human-aware robot navigation planning enables robots to traverse human-occupied
spaces socially. However, evaluating and benchmarking the 'human awareness' of such …

Navigation through crowded human environments is challenging for social robots. While
reinforcement learning has been adopted for its capacity to capture complex interactions, the …

Simulators are very effective tools in testing and debugging robotic systems before real-
world deployment. In the context of social robot navigation, simulated human agents are …

Human impressions of robot performance are often measured through surveys. As a more
scalable and cost-effective alternative, we study the possibility of predicting people's …

One of the main challenges for successful human-robot collaborative applications lies in
adapting the plan to the human agent's changing state and preferences. A promising …

Human-aware robot navigation addresses the navigation of the robot in the presence of
humans. Although significant research exists for addressing the visible humans, there is a …