Perception of Pedestrian Avoidance Strategies of a Self-Balancing Mobile Robot

Mobile robots moving in crowded environments have to navigate among pedestrians safely. Ideally, the way the robot avoids the pedestrians should not only be physically safe but also perceived safe and comfortable. Despite the rich literature in collision-free crowd navigation, limited research has been conducted on how humans perceive robot behaviors in the navigation context. In this paper, we implement three local pedestrian avoidance...