arxivcs.RO2026-06-27
Vision-Language Models for Deployable Social Robot Navigation: Bridging Semantic Reasoning and Low-Level Control
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…