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
AutoSpatial: Visual-Language Reasoning for Social Robot Navigation through Efficient Spatial Reasoning Learning
Yangzhe Kong, Daeun Song, Jing Liang +3
We present a novel method, AutoSpatial, an efficient approach with structured spatial grounding to enhance VLMs' spatial reasoning. By combining minimal manual supervision with lar…
cs.CV2024
Social-LLaVA: Enhancing Robot Navigation through Human-Language Reasoning in Social Spaces
Amirreza Payandeh, Daeun Song, Mohammad Nazeri +6
Most existing social robot navigation techniques either leverage hand-crafted rules or human demonstrations to connect robot perception to socially compliant actions. However, ther…