A Data-driven Framework for Proactive Intention-Aware Motion Planning of a Robot in a Human Environment

Rahul Peddi,Carmelo Di Franco,Shijie Gao,Nicola Bezzo,Rahul Peddi,Carmelo Di Franco,Shijie Gao,Nicola Bezzo

For safe and efficient human-robot interaction, a robot needs to predict and understand the intentions of humans who share the same space. Mobile robots are traditionally built to be reactive, moving in unnatural ways without following social protocol, hence forcing people to behave very differently from human-human interaction rules, which can be overcome if robots instead were proactive. In this...