Unfreezing Social Navigation: Dynamical Systems based Compliance for Contact Control in Robot Navigation
Diego Paez-Granados,Vaibhav Gupta,Aude Billard,Diego Paez-Granados,Vaibhav Gupta,Aude Billard
Large efforts have focused on ensuring that the controllers for mobile service robots follow proxemics and other social rules to ensure both safe and socially acceptable distance to pedestrians. Nonetheless, involuntary contact may be unavoidable when the robot travels in crowded areas or when encountering adversarial pedestrians. Freezing the robot in response to contact might be detrimental to b...
