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Publications (5)

cs.RO2026

How Human Motion Prediction Quality Shapes Social Robot Navigation Performance in Constrained Spaces

Andrew Stratton, Phani Teja Singamaneni, Pranav Goyal +2

Motivated by the vision of integrating mobile robots closer to humans in warehouses, hospitals, manufacturing plants, and the home, we focus on robot navigation in dynamic and spat…

cs.RO2024

Characterizing the Complexity of Social Robot Navigation Scenarios

Andrew Stratton, Kris Hauser, Christoforos Mavrogiannis

Social robot navigation algorithms are often demonstrated in overly simplified scenarios, prohibiting the extraction of practical insights about their relevance to real-world domai…

cs.RO2026

Bi3: A Biplatform, Bicultural, Biperson Dataset for Social Robot Navigation

Andrew Stratton, Phani Teja Singamaneni, Pranav Goyal +2

We contribute Bi3, a dataset of social robot navigation among groups of people in a constrained lab space. Compared to prior data collection efforts for social robot navigation, ou…

cs.RO2024

Integrating Open-World Shared Control in Immersive Avatars

Patrick Naughton, James Seungbum Nam, Andrew Stratton +1

Teleoperated avatar robots allow people to transport their manipulation skills to environments that may be difficult or dangerous to work in. Current systems are able to give opera…

cs.RO2026

ACME: A Multi-Cultural, Multi-Embodiment Social-Navigation Dataset

Shashank Rao Marpally, Allan Wang, Atharva Ghotavadekar +35

Understanding how robots and humans move in shared spaces is essential for designing effective social robot navigation policies and predicting human behavior. However, existing dat…