Reactive and Safe Co-Navigation with Haptic Guidance

Mela Coffey,Dawei Zhang,Roberto Tron,Alyssa Pierson,Mela Coffey,Dawei Zhang,Roberto Tron,Alyssa Pierson

We propose a co-navigation algorithm that enables a human and a robot to work together to navigate to a common goal. In this system, the human is responsible for making high-level steering decisions, and the robot, in turn, provides haptic feedback for collision avoidance and path suggestions while reacting to changes in the environment. Our algorithm uses optimized Rapidly-exploring Random Trees ...