# Social robot navigation

Area: [Offline RL and imitation learning from data](https://mlsanity.com/offlinerl/index.md). HTML: https://mlsanity.com/offlinerl/social-robot-navigation/

## Key facts

- Social robot navigation: 17 papers on arXiv since 2018 (data through 14 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).

## Most cited here

- [Socially Compliant Navigation Dataset (SCAND): A Large-Scale Dataset of Demonstrations for Social Navigation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.15041/) (2022), cited by 2 papers here
- [SoLo T-DIRL: Socially-Aware Dynamic Local Planner based on Trajectory-Ranked Deep Inverse Reinforcement Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2209.07996/) (2022), cited by 1 papers here