Socially Aware Robot Navigation through Scoring Using Vision-Language
Models
Socially Aware Robot Navigation through Scoring Using Vision-Language
Models
We propose VLM-Social-Nav, a novel Vision-Language Model (VLM) based navigation approach to compute a robot's trajectory in human-centered environments. Our goal is to make real-time decisions on robot actions that are socially compliant with human expectations. We utilize a perception model to detect important social entities and prompt a VLM …