Mobile Robot Locomotion in Human Populated Environments: A Social Situation
Daniel Carton · 2017
Seamless integration of mobile robots into human populated environments is a key challenge for robotics. Therefore, mobile robots require the ability to interact nonverbally and to perform predictable motions. Both abilities further demand accurate predictions of human locomotion. This work achieves these requirements by applying optimal control based methods that consider human locomotion behaviors for trajectory planning and prediction. This improves the robot ability to integrate seamlessly in a shared environment.