A Survey on Socially Aware Robot Navigation: Taxonomy and Future Challenges

Abstract

Socially aware robot navigation is gaining popularity with the increase in delivery and assistive robots. The research is further fueled by a need for socially aware navigation skills in autonomous vehicles to move safely and appropriately in spaces shared with humans. Although most of these are ground robots, drones are also entering the field. In this paper, we present a literature survey of the works on socially aware robot navigation in the past 10 years. We propose four different faceted taxonomies to navigate the literature and examine the field from four different perspectives. Through the taxonomic review, we discuss the current research directions and the extending scope of applications in various domains. Further, we put forward a list of current research opportunities and present a discussion on possible future challenges that are likely to emerge in the field.

References in corpus (8)

• Probabilistic Crowd GAN: Multimodal Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction using a Graph Vehicle-Pedestrian Attention Network
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• Cuddle-Fish: Exploring a Soft Floating Robot with Flapping Wings for Physical Interactions
• Towards Developing Socially Compliant Automated Vehicles: Advances, Expert Insights, and A Conceptual Framework
• Enhancing Autonomous Vehicle-Pedestrian Interaction in Shared Spaces: The Impact of Intended Path-Projection
• Metaverse for Safer Roadways: An Immersive Digital Twin Framework for Exploring Human-Autonomy Coexistence in Urban Transportation Systems
• A Comparative Study of Human Motion Models in Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for Social Robot Navigation