arxivcs.RO2026-07-06
Socially-Aware Autonomous Doorway Traversal and Payload Delivery for Emergency Assistance
Andrew Snowdy, Ananya Trivedi, Sarvesh Prajapati, Lorena Maria Genua, Taskin Padir
In this work, we focus on the scenario of a robot-assisted emergency evacuation. We consider two capabilities relevant to such a setting. The first is opening doors ahead of the people being evacuated, so that their path toward an exit stays clear. The second is retrieving rescue…