Follow The Robot: Modeling Coupled Human-Robot Dyads During Navigation

Autor: Aaron Steinfeld, Xiang Zhi Tan, Joe Connolly, Amal Nanavati
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: IROS
DOI: 10.1109/iros40897.2019.8967656
Popis: Many robot applications being explored involve robots leading humans during navigation. Developing effective robots for this task requires a way for robots to understand and model a human’s following behavior. In this paper, we present results from a user study of how humans follow a guide robot in the halls of an office building. We then present a data-driven Markovian model of this following behavior, and demonstrate its generalizability across time interval and trajectory length. Finally, we integrate the model into a global planner and run a simulation experiment to investigate the benefits of coupled human-robot planning. Our results suggest that the proposed model effectively predicts how humans follow a robot, and that the coupled planner, while taking longer, leads the human significantly closer to the target position.
Databáze: OpenAIRE