arxivcs.ROcs.AI2026-07-08
HumAIN: Human-Aware Implicit Social Robot Navigation
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…