3 papers
cs.RO2026
Navigating the Crowd: Non-linear MPC with Social Forces Dynamics for Human-Aware Robot Navigation
Stefano Trepella, Andrea Ostuni, Mauro Martini +5
Safe and socially compliant navigation remains a fundamental challenge for autonomous robots operating in human-populated environments. Beyond collision avoidance, robots must anti…
cs.RO2025
Metrics vs Surveys: An Analysis for Human-Aligned Benchmarking in Social Robot Navigation
Stefano Trepella, Mauro Martini, Noé Pérez-Higueras +4
Social, also called human-aware, navigation is a key challenge for integrating mobile robots into human environments. The evaluation of such systems is complex, as factors such as…
cs.RO2025
HuNavSim 2.0: An Enhanced Human Navigation Simulator for Human-Aware Robot Navigation
Miguel Escudero-Jiménez, Noé Pérez-Higueras, Andrés Martínez-Silva +2
This work presents a new iteration of the Human Navigation Simulator (HuNavSim), a novel open-source tool for the simulation of different human-agent navigation behaviors in scenar…