3 papers
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…
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
SocRATES: Towards Automated Scenario-based Testing of Social Navigation Algorithms
Shashank Rao Marpally, Pranav Goyal, Harold Soh
Current social navigation methods and benchmarks primarily focus on proxemics and task efficiency. While these factors are important, qualitative aspects such as perceptions of a r…