arxivcs.ROeess.SY2026-07-20
Stability and Comfort in Mobile Robot-Pedestrian Interactions
Alireza Jafari, Hong-Son Nguyen, Yen-Chen Liu
Mobile robots in public spaces must ensure pedestrians' comfort, and yet empirical studies of walkers' subjective safety are rare. Many classical navigation algorithms do not distinguish the walkers from dynamic obstacles and do not explicitly model subjective human factors. More…