Papers
13
Total Citations
294
H-Index
8
About
Phani Teja Singamaneni is a leading researcher in socially aware robot navigation, a field critical to the safe and appropriate deployment of robots—from delivery bots to autonomous vehicles—in human-populated spaces. His work addresses the core challenge of enabling robots to navigate not just efficiently, but with an understanding of human social norms and expectations. Singamaneni’s major contributions include the development of the HATEB-2 framework, a reactive planning and decision-making system that allows robots to dynamically shift navigation strategies based on context, and the creation of a tunable human-aware planner for diverse human-robot interaction scenarios. He has also pioneered methods for handling “invisible humans”—anticipating people who may emerge from behind obstacles—and introduced intelligent human avatars for debugging social navigation systems. His most cited survey on the topic (80 citations) and his widely referenced principles for evaluating social navigation algorithms (59 citations) have helped establish the field’s taxonomy and evaluation standards. With over 280 total citations, Singamaneni’s work is foundational for researchers and engineers building robots that can coexist gracefully with people.
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- 1A survey on socially aware robot navigation: Taxonomy and future challenges80 citations · 2024
- 2Principles and Guidelines for Evaluating Social Robot Navigation Algorithms59 citations · 2024
- 3Human-Aware Navigation Planner for Diverse Human-Robot Interaction Contexts52 citations · 2021
- 4HATEB-2: Reactive Planning and Decision making in Human-Robot Co-navigation29 citations · 2020
- 5MuMMER: Socially Intelligent Human-Robot Interaction in Public Spaces17 citations · 2019
- 6Principles and Guidelines for Evaluating Social Robot Navigation Algorithms15 citations · 2023
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