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STARS: From Spatiotemporal Dynamics to Social Representations in Human-Robot Interaction
Nathan Tsoi, Michael J. Munje, Tejas Oberoi +5
Robot navigation in dynamic, human-centered environments requires socially-compliant decisions grounded in robust scene understanding. Recent Vision-Language Models (VLMs) exhibit…
Adapting Generalist Vehicle Models for High-Speed MPC Across Terrains
Rwik Rana, Jesse Quattrociocchi, Christian Ellis +3
High-speed off-road autonomy requires precise closed-loop control for a target vehicle while remaining robust across changing terrains. Recent forward kinodynamic (FKD) prediction…
A Causal Approach to Predicting and Improving Human Perceptions of Social Navigation Robots
Maximilian Diehl, Nathan Tsoi, Gustavo Chavez +2
As mobile robots are increasingly deployed in human environments, enabling them to predict how people perceive them is critical for socially adaptable navigation. Predicting percep…
Few-Shot Inference of Human Perceptions of Robot Performance in Social Navigation Scenarios
Qiping Zhang, Nathan Tsoi, Mofeed Nagib +2
Understanding how humans evaluate robot behavior during human-robot interactions is crucial for developing socially aware robots that behave according to human expectations. While…
Learning Human Preferences Over Robot Behavior as Soft Planning Constraints
Austin Narcomey, Nathan Tsoi, Ruta Desai +1
Preference learning has long been studied in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) in order to adapt robot behavior to specific user needs and desires. Typically, human preferences are mod…
Predicting Human Perceptions of Robot Performance During Navigation Tasks
Qiping Zhang, Nathan Tsoi, Mofeed Nagib +4
Understanding human perceptions of robot performance is crucial for designing socially intelligent robots that can adapt to human expectations. Current approaches often rely on sur…
Principles and Guidelines for Evaluating Social Robot Navigation Algorithms
Anthony Francis, Claudia Pérez-D'Arpino, Chengshu Li +28
A major challenge to deploying robots widely is navigation in human-populated environments, commonly referred to as social robot navigation. While the field of social navigation ha…
Shutter, the Robot Photographer: Leveraging Behavior Trees for Public, In-the-Wild Human-Robot Interactions
Alexander Lew, Sydney Thompson, Nathan Tsoi +1
Deploying interactive systems in-the-wild requires adaptability to situations not encountered in lab environments. Our work details our experience about the impact of architecture…
An Approach to Deploy Interactive Robotic Simulators on the Web for HRI Experiments: Results in Social Robot Navigation
Nathan Tsoi, Mohamed Hussein, Olivia Fugikawa +2
Evaluation of social robot navigation inherently requires human input due to its qualitative nature. Motivated by the need to scale human evaluation, we propose a general method fo…
SEAN: Social Environment for Autonomous Navigation
Nathan Tsoi, Mohamed Hussein, Jeacy Espinoza +2
Social navigation research is performed on a variety of robotic platforms, scenarios, and environments. Making comparisons between navigation algorithms is challenging because of t…