Social Type-Aware Navigation Framework for Mobile Robots in Human-Shared Environments

Autor: Sumin Kang, Sungwoo Yang, Daewon Kwak, Yura Jargalbaatar, Donghan Kim
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Sensors, Vol 24, Iss 15, p 4862 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1424-8220
DOI: 10.3390/s24154862
Popis: As robots become increasingly common in human-populated environments, they must be perceived as social beings and behave socially. People try to preserve their own space during social interactions with others, and this space depends on a variety of factors, such as individual characteristics or their age. In real-world social spaces, there are many different types of people, and robots need to be more sensitive, especially when interacting with vulnerable subjects such as children. However, the current navigation methods do not consider these differences and apply the same avoidance strategies to everyone. Thus, we propose a new navigation framework that considers different social types and defines appropriate personal spaces for each, allowing robots to respect them. To this end, the robot needs to classify people in a real environment into social types and define the personal space for each type as a Gaussian asymmetric function to respect them. The proposed framework is validated through simulations and real-world experiments, demonstrating that the robot can improve the quality of interactions with people by providing each individual with an adaptive personal space. The proposed costmap layer is available on GitHub.
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