The paper introduces a language‑guided approach for robots to join human groups by predicting socially compliant joining poses. It uses recursive spectral partitioning to generate candidate group subsets, ranks them with a language‑conditioned image–geometry model, and then applies a goal predictor that incorporates human‑formation priors to produce a multimodal energy–orientation map of feasible robot poses. Experiments on various group scenarios show competitive grounding accuracy, superior joining‑pose prediction, and successful real‑robot demonstrations in both static and dynamic settings.
By Zilin Fang, Zishuo Wang, Gim Hee Lee, David Hsu
arXiv:2609.40245v2 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Robot navigation in dynamic, human-centered environments requires socially-compliant decisions grounded in robust scene understanding. Recent Vision-...
By Nathan Tsoi, Michael J. Munje, Tejas Oberoi, Rishab Maheshwari, Pengen Zheng, Tanush Chauhan, Peter Stone, Joydeep Biswas
arXiv:2607. 10991v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As mobile robots become more integrated into everyday human environments, social robot navigation is becoming essential for ensuring human comfort, safety, and trust.
By Ali Ahmadi, Hamed Rahimi, Adrien Jacquet Cretides, Marie Samson, Mahdi Khoramshahi, Mohamed Chetouani
arXiv:2607. 07021v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans continuously coordinate with others in dynamic interactions, often through implicit, hard-to-quantify social norms that act as shared tacit expectations among interacting agents.
By Yi Yang, Siyuan Liu, Xin Gao, Huamu Sun, Chao Liu, Qing Zhou, Bingbing Nie
arXiv:2503. 14229v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) has been studied mainly in either discrete or continuous spaces, with little attention to dynamic, crowded environments.
By Yifei Dong, Fengyi Wu, Qi He, Lingdong Kong, Heng Li, Minghan Li, Zebang Cheng, Yuxuan Zhou, Jingdong Sun, Qi Dai, Alexander G Hauptmann, Zhi-Qi Cheng
arXiv:2609.23997v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Multi-robot collaboration could enable more efficient and scalable solutions to complex robotic tasks, but collaboration under partial observability...
By Dorian Benhamou Goldfajn, Mason Nakamura, Saaduddin Mahmud, Justin Svegliato, Kyle H. Wray, Shlomo Zilberstein