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 …

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 …

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 …

The advances of the Internet of Things, robotics, and Artificial Intelligence, to give just a few
examples, allow us to imagine promising results in the development of smart buildings in the …

Predicting the motion of pedestrians is a challenge due to the uncertainty of the target
pedestrian itself and the influence of other people in the environment. Modelling social …

Navigation is an essential skill for robots. It becomes a cumbersome task for the robot in a
human-populated environment, and Industry 5.0 is an emerging trend that focuses on the …

In recent years, commercial and research interest in service robots working in everyday
environments has grown. These devices are expected to move autonomously in crowded …

Enabling socially acceptable behavior for situated agents is a major goal of recent robotics
research. Robots should not only operate safely around humans, but also abide by complex …

Robots navigate ever more often in close proximity to people. In the current work, we
focused on two distinctive navigational scenarios: passing and overtaking a person who is …

Mobile robot navigation has been studied for a long time, and it is nowadays widely used in
multiple applications. However, it is traditionally focused on two-dimensional geometric …