Papers
5
Total Citations
272
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5
About
P. Basili is a leading researcher in human-robot interaction, with a focus on making robot navigation and joint action more intuitive and legible for humans. Their work centers on understanding how robots can move and interact in ways that are predictable and socially acceptable, particularly in the presence of moving humans. Basili’s most influential paper, “Legible robot navigation in the proximity of moving humans” (2012, 90 citations), introduced a human-aware global navigation planner that improves the legibility of robot behavior in path-crossing scenarios. This work has been foundational in designing robots that communicate their intentions through motion. Another key contribution, “Interacting in time and space: Investigating human-human and human-robot joint action” (2010, 78 citations), explores the benchmarks for natural physical interaction, comparing human-human coordination with human-robot performance. Basili has also investigated approach behaviors and hand-over tasks (2009, 66 citations), as well as plan-based control for joint activities (2010, 26 citations). Their research on inferring the goals of approaching agents (2012, 12 citations) further advances the field by enabling robots to predict human intentions, paving the way for smoother, more collaborative human-robot teams.
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Top Papers
- 1Legible robot navigation in the proximity of moving humans90 citations · 2012
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- 3Investigating Human-Human Approach and Hand-Over66 citations · 2009
- 4Plan-Based Control of Joint Human-Robot Activities26 citations · 2010
- 5Inferring the goal of an approaching agent: A human-robot study12 citations · 2012