Using human-inspired signals to disambiguate navigational intentions

J Hart, R Mirsky, X Xiao, S Tejeda, B Mahajan… - … Conference on Social …, 2020 - Springer
People are proficient at communicating their intentions in order to avoid conflicts when
navigating in narrow, crowded environments. Mobile robots, on the other hand, often lack
both the ability to interpret human intentions and the ability to clearly communicate their own
intentions to people sharing their space. This work addresses the second of these points,
leveraging insights about how people implicitly communicate with each other through gaze
to enable mobile robots to more clearly signal their navigational intention. We present a …

[PDF][PDF] Using Human-Inspired Signals to Disambiguate Navigational Intentions

B Mahajan, J Goo, K Baldauf, S Owen, P Stone - people.cs.gmu.edu
People are proficient at communicating their intentions in order to avoid conflicts when
navigating in narrow, crowded environments. Mobile robots, on the other hand, often lack
both the ability to interpret human intentions and the ability to clearly communicate their own
intentions to people sharing their space. This work addresses the second of these points,
leveraging insights about how people implicitly communicate with each other through gaze
to enable mobile robots to more clearly signal their navigational intention. We present a …
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