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Social robot navigation

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Keywords: social, navigation, social navigation, pedestrian, socially

Key facts. Social robot navigation: 17 papers on arXiv since 2018 (data through 7 Oct 2026). 2 of its 17 mapped papers (12%) cite “Socially Compliant Navigation Dataset (SCAND): A Large-Scale Dataset of Demonstrations for Social Navigation” (2022, arXiv 2203.15041). 1 of its 17 mapped papers (6%) cite “SoLo T-DIRL: Socially-Aware Dynamic Local Planner based on Trajectory-Ranked Deep Inverse Reinforcement Learning” (2022, arXiv 2209.07996).

What’s new

Nothing new since 17 Sep. Latest: 26 Aug 2026.

Foundations

Most cited by papers here

  1. Socially Compliant Navigation Dataset (SCAND): A Large-Scale Dataset of Demonstrations for Social Navigation2022cited by 2 here
  2. SoLo T-DIRL: Socially-Aware Dynamic Local Planner based on Trajectory-Ranked Deep Inverse Reinforcement Learning2022cited by 1 here

Lineage

The papers this direction builds on, oldest first.

Each paper on the line cites the one before.

  1. 2020D4RL: Datasets for Deep Data-Driven Reinforcement Learningcited by 1 here
  2. 2020Offline Reinforcement Learning: Tutorial, Review, and Perspectives on Open Problemscited by 1 here
  3. 2020Conservative Q-Learning for Offline Reinforcement Learningcited by 1 here
  4. 2021Decision Transformer: Reinforcement Learning via Sequence Modelingcited by 1 here
  5. 2021A Minimalist Approach to Offline Reinforcement Learningcited by 1 here
  6. 2021Offline Reinforcement Learning with Implicit Q-Learningcited by 1 here
  7. 2021d3rlpy: An Offline Deep Reinforcement Learning Librarycited by 1 here
17 more it builds on, not in this chain
  1. 2018Multi-agent Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Certain General-sum Stochastic Gamescited by 1 here
  2. 2018Multi-Agent Generative Adversarial Imitation Learningcited by 1 here
  3. 2018Discriminator-Actor-Critic: Addressing Sample Inefficiency and Reward Bias in Adversarial Imitation Learningcited by 1 here
  4. 2019Extrapolating Beyond Suboptimal Demonstrations via Inverse Reinforcement Learning from Observationscited by 1 here
  5. 2019Multi-Agent Adversarial Inverse Reinforcement Learningcited by 2 here
  6. 2019Imitation Learning from Observations by Minimizing Inverse Dynamics Disagreementcited by 1 here
  7. 2019Decision Making for Autonomous Driving via Augmented Adversarial Inverse Reinforcement Learningcited by 1 here
  8. 2019MEDIRL: Predicting the Visual Attention of Drivers via Maximum Entropy Deep Inverse Reinforcement Learningcited by 1 here
  9. 2020Demonstration-efficient Inverse Reinforcement Learning in Procedurally Generated Environmentscited by 1 here
  10. 2021COMBO: Conservative Offline Model-Based Policy Optimizationcited by 1 here
  11. 2021Offline Reinforcement Learning as One Big Sequence Modeling Problemcited by 1 here
  12. 2022Spatiotemporal Costmap Inference for MPC via Deep Inverse Reinforcement Learningcited by 2 here
  13. 2022Socially Compliant Navigation Dataset (SCAND): A Large-Scale Dataset of Demonstrations for Social Navigationcited by 2 here
  14. 2022A deep inverse reinforcement learning approach to route choice modeling with context-dependent rewardscited by 1 here
  15. 2022Energy-based Legged Robots Terrain Traversability Modeling via Deep Inverse Reinforcement Learningcited by 2 here
  16. 2022SoLo T-DIRL: Socially-Aware Dynamic Local Planner based on Trajectory-Ranked Deep Inverse Reinforcement Learningcited by 1 here
  17. 2022Model-Based Imitation Learning for Urban Drivingcited by 1 here

The 24 most cited of 26.

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15 of 17, ranked 6–20

  1. 3Trajectory Learning with Graph Representations for Social Robot Navigation20260
  2. 4SPLC: Social Preference Learning for Crowd Robot Navigation20260
  3. 5Advantage-Driven Explicit Memory for Social Navigation20260
  4. 6Learning Implicit Social Navigation Behavior using Deep Inverse Reinforcement Learning20250
  5. 7Integrating Offline Pre-Training with Online Fine-Tuning: A Reinforcement Learning Approach for Robot Social Navigation20250
  6. 8ARMCHAIR: integrated inverse reinforcement learning and model predictive control for human-robot collaboration20240
  7. 9Multi-Agent Inverse Reinforcement Learning in Real World Unstructured Pedestrian Crowds20240
  8. 10Evaluating MEDIRL: A Replication and Ablation Study of Maximum Entropy Deep Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Human Social Navigation20240
  9. 11Navigating the Human Maze: Real-Time Robot Pathfinding with Generative Imitation Learning20240
  10. 12Social Motion Prediction with Cognitive Hierarchies20230
All 15
  1. 13Robot Crowd Navigation in Dynamic Environment with Offline Reinforcement Learning20230
  2. 14A General, Evolution-Inspired Reward Function for Social Robotics20220
  3. 15Gesture2Path: Imitation Learning for Gesture-aware Navigation20220
  4. 16Sample Efficient Social Navigation Using Inverse Reinforcement Learning20210
  5. 17Comparative Analysis of Human Movement Prediction: Space Syntax and Inverse Reinforcement Learning20180