Watch Where You’re Going! Gaze and Head Orientation as Predictors for Social Robot Navigation
Blake Holman Abrar Anwar Akash Singh Mauricio Tec Justin Hart Peter Stone Blake Holman Abrar Anwar Akash Singh Mauricio Tec Justin Hart Peter Stone
Mobile robots deployed in human-populated environments must be able to safely and comfortably navigate in close proximity to people. Head orientation and gaze are both mechanisms which help people to interpret where other people intend to walk, which in turn enables them to coordinate their movement. Head orientation has previously been leveraged to develop classifiers which are able to predict th...