Proactive Opinion-Driven Robot Navigation Around Human Movers
Charlotte Cathcart,María Santos,Shinkyu Park,Naomi Ehrich Leonard,Charlotte Cathcart,María Santos,Shinkyu Park,Naomi Ehrich Leonard
We propose, analyze, and experimentally verify a new proactive approach for robot social navigation driven by the robot's “opinion” for which way and by how much to pass human movers crossing its path. The robot forms an opinion over time according to nonlinear dynamics that depend on the robot's observations of human movers and its level of attention to these social cues. For these dynamics, it i...
