Join the Group Formations using Social Cues in Social Robots

Abstract

This work investigates how agents can spatially orient themselves into formations which provide good conditions for enabling social interaction. To achieve this, we are using socio-psychological notion, F-formation in our project and based on this concept, we detect positions of other agents in a scene to find the optimum placement. Using both simulation and real robotic systems, the system aims to achieve a functionality which enables an agent to autonomously place itself within a group.