Robot navigation in large-scale social maps: An action recognition approach

As robots tend to establish their presence in every day human environments the necessity for them to attain socially acceptable behavior is a condition sine qua non. Consequently, robots need to learn and react appropriately, should they be able to share the same space with people and to reconcile their operation to man’s activity. This work proposes an integrated robot framework that allows navigation in a human populated environment. This is...