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Xinyu Zhang, Zishuo Wang, Ling Xiao
Vision-language models have shown strong potential for social robot navigation by leveraging rich semantic understanding of complex environments and human behaviors. However, large scale VLMs are difficult to deploy on resource-constrained robotic platforms, while lightweight VLM…
Daeun Song, Nhat Le, Jeffrey Chen, Mohammad Nazeri, Amirreza Payandeh, Rohan Chandra, et al.
Effective social robot navigation requires sensitivity to human behavior, often revealed through subtle skeletal cues like gait and orientation. We present Human-Aware Implicit Social Robot Navigation (HumAIN), a novel framework that fuses implicit social cues directly into the p…
Runji Cai, Toshihiko Yamasaki, Ling Xiao
Social robot navigation (SRN) requires more than geometric path planning; it demands understanding human intentions, social norms, and contextual cues to generate socially compliant behaviors. Although classical navigation methods provide reliable metric planning and collision av…