How Human Motion Prediction Quality Shapes Social Robot Navigation Performance in Constrained Spaces
Published in HRI 2026, 2026
Recommended citation: Andrew Stratton, Phani Teja Singamaneni, Pranav Goyal, Rachid Alami, Christoforos Mavrogiannis, "How Human Motion Prediction Quality Shapes Social Robot Navigation Performance in Constrained Spaces." In the proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2026. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.09856
We study how the accuracy of human motion prediction modules propagates through to downstream social navigation performance in tight, constrained spaces, where small prediction errors have outsized effects on planner behavior and human comfort.