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A Survey on Human-aware Robot Navigation

arXiv 2106.11650 ↗First posted 22 Jun 2021cs.RO cs.CVcited by 23

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Abstract (arXiv)

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 manifestations of those systems on the other hand, in the form of embodied agents or robots, have so far been used only for specific applications and are often limited to functional roles (e.g. in the industry, entertainment and military fields). Given the current growth and innovation in the research communities concerned with the topics of robot navigation, human-robot-interaction and human activity recognition, it seems like this might soon change. Robots are increasingly easy to obtain and use and the acceptance of them in general is growing. However, the design of a socially compliant robot that can function as a companion needs to take various areas of research into account. This paper is concerned with the navigation aspect of a socially-compliant robot and provides a survey of existing solutions for the relevant areas of research as well as an outlook on possible future directions.

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  1. 2024Vision-and-Language Navigation Today and Tomorrow: A Survey in the Era of Foundation Modelscited by 79
  2. 2023Principles and Guidelines for Evaluating Social Robot Navigation Algorithmscited by 52
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  6. 2024From Cognition to Precognition: A Future-Aware Framework for Social Navigationcited by 10
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  8. 2022Exploiting Proximity-Aware Tasks for Embodied Social Navigationcited by 6
  9. 2024Exploring 3D Human Pose Estimation and Forecasting from the Robot's Perspective: The HARPER Datasetcited by 5
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  11. 2024Following the Human Thread in Social Navigationcited by 4
  12. 2023hear-your-action: human action recognition by ultrasound active sensingcited by 3
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  3. 2022Learning Personalized Human-Aware Robot Navigation Using Virtual Reality Demonstrations from a User Studycited by 2
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  10. 2026HINT-Plan: Human Intention-Aware Robot Task Planning in Context-Rich Environments using Vision Language Modelscited by 0
  11. 2026PRISM: Predictive Representation of Interaction Style and Motion for Social Robot Navigationcited by 0