Publication Details

Santosh Balajee Banisetty, Meera Sebastian, and David Feil-Seifer. "Socially-Aware Navigation: Action Discrimination to Select Appropriate Behavior." In 2016 AAAI Fall Symposium Series: AI-HRI Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction, Arlington, VA, Nov 2016. ( pdf )


  • Keywords:
  • socially assistive robotics
  • Socially-Aware Navigation (SAN)

Abstract

In this paper, we study if modeling can help discriminate actions which in turn can be used to select an appropriate behavior for a mobile robot. For human-human interaction, a significant social and communicative information can be derived from interpersonal distance between two or more people. If Human-Robot Interaction reflects this human-human interaction property, then interpersonal distance between a human and a robot contains similar social and communicative information. An effective robot's actions, including actions associated with interpersonal distance, must be suitable for a given social circumstance. Studying interpersonal distance between a robot and a human is very important for assistive robots. We use autonomously detected features to develop such an interpersonal model using Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) and demonstrate that such a learned model can discriminate different human actions. The proposed approach can be used in a socially-aware planner to weight trajectories and select actions that are socially appropriate for a given social situation.

Author Details

Name: Santosh Balajee Banisetty
email: santoshbanisetty@nevada.unr.edu
Website: http://www.santoshbanisetty.com/
Status: Active

Name: Meera Sebastian
email: meerasebastian@nevada.unr.edu
Phone: (443) 707-6361
Status: Active

Name: David Feil-Seifer
email: dave@cse.unr.edu
Website: http://cse.unr.edu/~dave
Phone: (775) 784-6469
Status: Active

BibTex Reference

@inproceedings{banisetty2016socially-aware,
  title={Socially-Aware Navigation: Action Discrimination to Select Appropriate Behavior},
  author={Santosh Balajee Banisetty and Meera Sebastian and David Feil-Seifer},
  year={2016},
  month={November},
  address={Arlington, VA},
  booktitle={2016 AAAI Fall Symposium Series: AI-HRI Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction},
}

HTML Reference

<span class="authors">Santosh Balajee Banisetty, Meera Sebastian, and David Feil-Seifer</span>. <span class="title">"Socially-Aware Navigation: Action Discrimination to Select Appropriate Behavior." </span> In <span class="booktitle">2016 AAAI Fall Symposium Series: AI-HRI Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction</span>, <span class="address">Arlington, VA</span>, <span class="month">Nov</span> <span class="year">2016</span>. <span class="ending"></span>

Support

Designing Collaborator Robots for Highly-Dynamic Multi-Human, Multi-Robot Teams, Office of Naval Research (ONR) PI: Monica Nicolescu, co-PI: David Feil-Seifer, Amount: $656,511, April 1, 2016 - March 31, 2019

DURIP: Humanoid Platforms for Human-Robot Collaboration, Office of Naval Research (ONR) PI: Monica Nicolescu, co-PI: David Feil-Seifer, Mircea Nicolescu, Amount: $312,000, May 1, 2014 - June 30, 2015

Instructional Enhancement Grant: Robotics for Experimentation in the Classroom, University of Nevada, Reno Provost's Office PI: David Feil-Seifer, Amount: $5,000, July 1, 2014 - May 15, 2015