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Social Elastic Band with Prediction and Anticipation: Enhancing Real-Time Path Trajectory Optimization for Socially Aware Robot Navigation
As social robots are projected to become an integral part of human life in the coming decades, their ability to adapt movement and trajectory when in...
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Crowd-Aware Socially Compliant Robot Navigation via Deep Reinforcement Learning
Navigating in crowd environments is challenging for mobile robots because not only the safety but also the comfort of surrounding pedestrians must be...
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Socially Aware Robot Obstacle Avoidance Considering Human Intention and Preferences
In order to navigate safely and effectively with humans in close proximity, robots must be capable of predicting the future motions of humans. This...
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A Synthetic Crowd Generation Framework for Socially Aware Robot Navigation
Socially aware robot navigation has gathered more and more interest from research communities due to its promising applications. Recent breakthroughs...
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Give Pedestrian More Choice: Socially Aware Navigation Using Reinforcement Learning with Human Action Entropy Maximization
Robot navigation in a human-populated environment has spurred wide interest in recent years. While moving safely and efficiently are basic...
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Preference-Based People-Aware Navigation for Telepresence Robots
This work proposes an innovative people-aware navigation for telepresence robots in a populated environment based on the estimated inclination of...
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Benchmarking Off-the-Shelf Human-Aware Robot Navigation Solutions
In recent years, the number of robotic applications in public spaces has been growing. Decades of research have given rise to various methods of...
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Robot Gaze During Autonomous Navigation and Its Effect on Social Presence
As robots have become increasingly common in human-rich environments, it is critical that they are able to exhibit social cues to be perceived as a...
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Could Socially Interactive Architectural Robotics Promote Restorative Environments?
In a pandemic or post-pandemic world, numerous environments can be stress-inducing for individuals. Hospitals, for instance, can trigger anxiety in...
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The Critical Robot: Impact of Performance Feedback on Intrinsic Motivation, Self-Esteem and Psychophysiology in Human–Robot Interaction
Social, anthropomorphic robots are increasingly used in professional work environments to collaborate with humans. However, little is known about how...
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PRTIRL Based Socially Adaptive Path Planning for Mobile Robots
In recent years, learning-based methods have been increasingly studied to combine social norms with mobile robot navigation, such as social...
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Using Socially Assistive Robots in Speech-Language Therapy for Children with Language Impairments
Socially assistive robots (SARs) have been shown to be promising therapy tools for children with primary or co-occurring language impairments (e.g.,...
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Dynamic warning zone and a short-distance goal for autonomous robot navigation using deep reinforcement learning
Robot navigation in crowded environments has recently benefited from advances in deep reinforcement learning (DRL) approaches. However, it still...
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Humanoid robot heads for human-robot interaction: A review
The humanoid robot head plays an important role in the emotional expression of human-robot interaction (HRI). They are emerging in industrial...
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Utilizing an Emotional Robot Capable of Lip-Syncing in Robot-Assisted Speech Therapy Sessions for Children with Language Disorders
This study scrutinizes the impacts of utilizing a socially assistive robot, the RASA robot, during speech therapy sessions for children with language...
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Break the Ice: a Survey on Socially Aware Engagement for Human–Robot First Encounters
Society is starting to come up with exciting applications for social robots like butlers, coaches, and waiters. However, these robots face a...
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Designing a Socially Assistive Robot for Education Through a Participatory Design Approach: Pivotal Principles for the Developers
Designing socially assistive robots (SARs) for educational purposes can be a challenging task for developers. Developers need to identify the...
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Human-Robot Autonomous System: An Interactive Architecture
Social robotics is a growing field that aims to enhance the interaction between robots and humans in everyday settings. To achieve this goal, various...
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Social crowd navigation of a mobile robot based on human trajectory prediction and hybrid sensing
This paper propose a hierarchical path planning algorithm that first captures the local crowd movement around the robot using RGB camera combined...
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Human–Robot Cooperation in Economic Games: People Show Strong Reciprocity but Conditional Prosociality Toward Robots
Understanding how people socially engage with robots is becoming increasingly important as these machines are deployed in social settings. We...
