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Publication (IEEE 2019): Avoidance of Convex and Concave Obstacles With Convergence Ensured Through Contraction

Authors: Huber, Lukas; Billard, Aude; Slotine, Jean-Jacques

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Deliverable 6.1: Overview of Risks When Using Robots in Crowds

This document aims at identifying risks that may arise when a robot navigates through a crowd and to provide a preliminary set of tools for identifying and evaluating potential physical hazards deriving from interaction with crowdbots. For the scope of this document, we define crowdbots as mobile robots operating in public, densely populated spaces, capable

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Deliverable 1.2: Experiment Protocol and Risk Assessment

As part of external stakeholder engagements, two types of experiments ─ user studies and robotic tests ─ are planned for the Crowdbot project. User studies are further classified as structured interviews and focus group engagements. Both user study experiments will be used to collect information and better understand the viewpoints and concerns of various stakeholders

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Deliverable 5.2: First Basic Integrated Robot System Prototype in Experimental Scenario

Work package 5 (WP5) is about developing about a coherent theoretical and functional system architecture that can accommodate the targeted scenarios and facilitate the integration of the different work packages across all three robotic platforms. However, this process must be iterative and reviewable after each milestone so that the achievement of such objectives is guaranteed

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Workshop (IROS 2018): From freezing to jostling robots: Current challenges and new paradigms for safe robot navigation in dense crowds

Authors: Pettré, Julien; Babel, Marie; Hayet, Jean-Bernard; Salaris, Paolo; Salvini, Pericle

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Deliverable 1.1: Specification of Scenarios Requirements

Scenarios are descriptors that portray use cases and operational procedures of mobile robots in human crowd environments such as hospitals, shopping malls, train stations and other public or private venues. Nowadays we are witnessing the presence of robots in both public and private places but their efficacy and technological features are rather modest due to

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All-hands meeting at Paris – September 2018

CrowdBot first All-hands meeting was hosted at SoftBank Robotics Paris in September, 2018.

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Publication (ICSR 2018): Towards Dialogue-based Navigation with Multivariate Adaptation driven by Intention and Politeness for Social Robots

Authors: Bothe, Chandrakant; Garcia, Fernando; Cruz Maya, Arturo; Pandey, Amit Kumar; Wermter, Stefan

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Webex Executive Commitee meeting – July 2018

The first ExCom Meeting was held by teleconference.

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Deliverable 4.1: Physical Interactions between Robots & Humans

The CROWDBOT project aims for tight navigation of mobile robots in a dense crowd and thus physical interaction (both contact and non-contact) between a robot and human crowd is anticipated. This report addresses our approach for modeling, analysis and experimentation of robot-human physical interaction. Here the term “physical” means that a robot will come close