Title
A New Approach for Including Social Conventions Into Social Robots Navigation by Using Polygonal Triangulation and Group Asymmetric Gaussian Functions
Date Issued
01 June 2022
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
MDPI
Abstract
Many authors have been working on approaches that can be applied to social robots to allow a more realistic/comfortable relationship between humans and robots in the same space. This paper proposes a new navigation strategy for social environments by recognizing and considering the social conventions of people and groups. To achieve that, we proposed the application of Delaunay triangulation for connecting people as vertices of a triangle network. Then, we defined a complete asymmetric Gaussian function (for individuals and groups) to decide zones where the robot must avoid passing. Furthermore, a feature generalization scheme called socialization feature was proposed to incorporate perception information that can be used to change the variance of the Gaussian function. Simulation results have been presented to demonstrate that the proposed approach can modify the path according to the perception of the robot compared to a standard A* algorithm.
Volume
22
Issue
12
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Robótica, Control automático
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85132156500
PubMed ID
Source
Sensors
ISSN of the container
14248220
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus