3 papers
cs.RO2026
Stability and Comfort in Mobile Robot-Pedestrian Interactions
Alireza Jafari, Hong-Son Nguyen, Yen-Chen Liu
Mobile robots in public spaces must ensure pedestrians' comfort, and yet empirical studies of walkers' subjective safety are rare. Many classical navigation algorithms do not disti…
cs.RO2026
Empirical Pedestrian Safety Assessment in a Mobile Robot Using a Predictive Social Force Model
Alireza Jafari, Yun-Hao Tsai, Yen-Chen Liu
Mobile robots are going to share the sidewalks with pedestrians. They must ensure their objective safety and respect the walkers' subjective safety/comfort. Computationally efficie…
cs.RO2026
Empirical Prediction of Pedestrian Comfort in Mobile Robot Pedestrian Encounters
Alireza Jafari, Hong-Son Nguyen, Yen-Chen Liu
Mobile robots joining public spaces like sidewalks must care for pedestrian comfort. Many studies consider pedestrians' objective safety, for example, by developing collision avoid…