EWareNet: Emotion-Aware Pedestrian Intent Prediction and Adaptive Spatial Profile Fusion for Social Robot Navigation
Venkatraman Narayanan,Bala Murali Manoghar,Rama Prashanth RV,Aniket Bera,Venkatraman Narayanan,Bala Murali Manoghar,Rama Prashanth RV,Aniket Bera
We present EWareNet, a novel intent and affect-aware social robot navigation algorithm among pedestrians. Our approach predicts the trajectory-based pedestrian intent from gait sequence, which is then used for intent-guided navigation taking into account social and proxemic constraints. We propose a transformer-based model that works on commodity RGB-D cameras mounted onto a moving robot. Our inte...
