3 accepted papers
Autonomous systems, such as delivery robots, are increasingly employed in indoor spaces to carry out activities alongside humans. This development poses the question of how robots can carry out their tasks while, at the same time, behaving in a socially compliant manner. Further, humans need to be a…
Horizontally scanning 2D laser rangefinders are a popular approach for indoor robot localization because of the high accuracy of the sensors and the compactness of the required 2D maps. As the scanners in this configuration only provide information about one slice of the environment, the measurement…
Most of the conventional approaches to mobile robot navigation avoid any kind of contact with the environment or with humans. As nowadays distance sensors typically have a limited - and often only two-dimensional - field of view, collisions with the environment or contacts with humans cannot be full…