3 papers
cs.RO2026
Beyond Collision Avoidance: Multi-Robot Yielding and Spatial Affordance in Emergency Evacuations
Ning Zhou, Edmund R. Hunt, Nikolai W. F. Bode
As mobile service robots increasingly coexist with pedestrians, ensuring passively safe behaviour during confined emergency evacuations is critical. Existing multi-robot yielding s…
cs.MA2026
Multi-Agent Cooperative Transportation: Optimal and Efficient Task Allocation and Path Finding
Ning Zhou, Nikolai W. F. Bode, Edmund R. Hunt
Multi-robot systems are integral to modern logistics, but their capabilities are often limited to tasks executable by individual agents. This paper addresses a critical gap in exis…
physics.soc-ph2025
Determining social mechanisms for sequential decision-making in a virtual pedestrian route choice experiment
Anna Sigalou, Yunhe Tong, Charlie Pilgrim +2
Moving groups are routinely faced with a choice of different routes as part of their daily lives, such as choosing between exits from a building. Differences in moving speeds and e…