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SEAN: Social Environment for Autonomous Navigation

arXiv 2009.04300 ↗First posted 9 Sep 2020cs.ROcited by 18

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Abstract (arXiv)

Social navigation research is performed on a variety of robotic platforms, scenarios, and environments. Making comparisons between navigation algorithms is challenging because of the effort involved in building these systems and the diversity of platforms used by the community; nonetheless, evaluation is critical to understanding progress in the field. In a step towards reproducible evaluation of social navigation algorithms, we propose the Social Environment for Autonomous Navigation (SEAN). SEAN is a high visual fidelity, open source, and extensible social navigation simulation platform which includes a toolkit for evaluation of navigation algorithms. We demonstrate SEAN and its evaluation toolkit in two environments with dynamic pedestrians and using two different robots.

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  1. 2022Socially Compliant Navigation Dataset (SCAND): A Large-Scale Dataset of Demonstrations for Social Navigationcited by 122
  2. 2023Principles and Guidelines for Evaluating Social Robot Navigation Algorithmscited by 52
  3. 2021Social Coordination and Altruism in Autonomous Drivingcited by 28
  4. 2021A Survey on Human-aware Robot Navigationcited by 23
  5. 2021Conflict Avoidance in Social Navigation -- a Surveycited by 13
  6. 2025Virtual Community: An Open World for Humans, Robots, and Societycited by 13
  7. 2022NavDreams: Towards Camera-Only RL Navigation Among Humanscited by 7
  8. 2023TBD Pedestrian Data Collection: Towards Rich, Portable, and Large-Scale Natural Pedestrian Datacited by 5
  9. 2024Arena 4.0: A Comprehensive ROS2 Development and Benchmarking Platform for Human-centric Navigation Using Generative-Model-based Environment Generationcited by 4
  10. 2025SVLTA: Benchmarking Vision-Language Temporal Alignment via Synthetic Video Situationcited by 4
  11. 2025Ella: Embodied Social Agents with Lifelong Memorycited by 4
  12. 2022Learning Social Navigation from Demonstrations with Conditional Neural Processescited by 3
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  1. 2023Arena-Rosnav 2.0: A Development and Benchmarking Platform for Robot Navigation in Highly Dynamic Environmentscited by 2
  2. 2023A Framework for Realistic Simulation of Daily Human Activitycited by 2
  3. 2023Arena-Web -- A Web-based Development and Benchmarking Platform for Autonomous Navigation Approachescited by 1
  4. 2026Visually-grounded Humanoid Agentscited by 1
  5. 2022Towards Rich, Portable, and Large-Scale Pedestrian Data Collectioncited by 0
  6. 2026Do World Models Make Better Robots? A Survey of Evaluation Benchmarks for Predictive Embodied Intelligencecited by 0