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most citedA Survey on Socially Aware Robot Navigation: Taxonomy and Future Challenges

101 citations · 136 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.RO2026

Validating Virtual Reality for Studying Multimodal Human-Robot Interaction in Socially Aware Robot Navigation

Hariharan Arunachalam, Phani Teja Singamaneni, Rachid Alami

Virtual Reality (VR) offers a flexible and controllable platform for studying human-robot interaction. Prior work has explored VR for socially aware robot navigation. However, whet…

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.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.RO2025

Towards Data-Driven Metrics for Social Robot Navigation Benchmarking

Pilar Bachiller-Burgos, Ulysses Bernardet, Luis V. Calderita +8

This paper presents a joint effort towards the development of a data-driven Social Robot Navigation metric to facilitate benchmarking and policy optimization for ground robots. We…

cs.RO2025

Assessing Human Cooperation for Enhancing Social Robot Navigation

Hariharan Arunachalam, Phani Teja Singamaneni, Rachid Alami

Socially aware robot navigation is a planning paradigm where the robot navigates in human environments and tries to adhere to social constraints while interacting with the humans i…

cs.RO2023★ 101 cited

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

Phani Teja Singamaneni, Pilar Bachiller-Burgos, Luis J. Manso +4

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 ski…

cs.RO2023★ 16 cited

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…

cs.RO2022

Watch out! There may be a Human. Addressing Invisible Humans in Social Navigation

Phani Teja Singamaneni, Anthony Favier, Rachid Alami

Current approaches in human-aware or social robot navigation address the humans that are visible to the robot. However, it is also important to address the possible emergences of h…

cs.RO2021

Human-Aware Navigation Planner for Diverse Human-Robot Contexts

Phani Singamaneni, Anthony Favier, Rachid Alami

As more robots are being deployed into human environments, a human-aware navigation planner needs to handle multiple contexts that occur in indoor and outdoor environments. In this…

cs.RO2019★ 19 cited

MuMMER: Socially Intelligent Human-Robot Interaction in Public Spaces

Mary Ellen Foster, Bart Craenen, Amol Deshmukh +27

In the EU-funded MuMMER project, we have developed a social robot designed to interact naturally and flexibly with users in public spaces such as a shopping mall. We present the la…