Social-LLaVA: Enhancing Robot Navigation through Human-Language Reasoning in Social Spaces

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Autori principali: Payandeh, Amirreza, Song, Daeun, Nazeri, Mohammad, Liang, Jing, Mukherjee, Praneel, Raj, Amir Hossain, Kong, Yangzhe, Manocha, Dinesh, Xiao, Xuesu
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author Payandeh, Amirreza
Song, Daeun
Nazeri, Mohammad
Liang, Jing
Mukherjee, Praneel
Raj, Amir Hossain
Kong, Yangzhe
Manocha, Dinesh
Xiao, Xuesu
author_facet Payandeh, Amirreza
Song, Daeun
Nazeri, Mohammad
Liang, Jing
Mukherjee, Praneel
Raj, Amir Hossain
Kong, Yangzhe
Manocha, Dinesh
Xiao, Xuesu
contents Most existing social robot navigation techniques either leverage hand-crafted rules or human demonstrations to connect robot perception to socially compliant actions. However, there remains a significant gap in effectively translating perception into socially compliant actions, much like how human reasoning naturally occurs in dynamic environments. Considering the recent success of Vision-Language Models (VLMs), we propose using language to bridge the gap in human-like reasoning between perception and socially aware robot actions. We create a vision-language dataset, Social robot Navigation via Explainable Interactions (SNEI), featuring 40K human-annotated Visual Question Answers (VQAs) based on 2K human-robot social interactions in unstructured, crowded public spaces, spanning perception, prediction, chain-of-thought reasoning, action, and explanation. We fine-tune a VLM, Social-LLaVA, using SNEI to demonstrate the practical application of our dataset. Social-LLaVA outperforms state-of-the-art models like GPT-4V and Gemini, based on the average of fifteen different human-judge scores across 50 VQA. Deployed onboard a mobile robot, Social-LLaVA enables human-like reasoning, marking a promising step toward socially compliant robot navigation in dynamic public spaces through language reasoning.
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spellingShingle Social-LLaVA: Enhancing Robot Navigation through Human-Language Reasoning in Social Spaces
Payandeh, Amirreza
Song, Daeun
Nazeri, Mohammad
Liang, Jing
Mukherjee, Praneel
Raj, Amir Hossain
Kong, Yangzhe
Manocha, Dinesh
Xiao, Xuesu
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Human-Computer Interaction
Robotics
Most existing social robot navigation techniques either leverage hand-crafted rules or human demonstrations to connect robot perception to socially compliant actions. However, there remains a significant gap in effectively translating perception into socially compliant actions, much like how human reasoning naturally occurs in dynamic environments. Considering the recent success of Vision-Language Models (VLMs), we propose using language to bridge the gap in human-like reasoning between perception and socially aware robot actions. We create a vision-language dataset, Social robot Navigation via Explainable Interactions (SNEI), featuring 40K human-annotated Visual Question Answers (VQAs) based on 2K human-robot social interactions in unstructured, crowded public spaces, spanning perception, prediction, chain-of-thought reasoning, action, and explanation. We fine-tune a VLM, Social-LLaVA, using SNEI to demonstrate the practical application of our dataset. Social-LLaVA outperforms state-of-the-art models like GPT-4V and Gemini, based on the average of fifteen different human-judge scores across 50 VQA. Deployed onboard a mobile robot, Social-LLaVA enables human-like reasoning, marking a promising step toward socially compliant robot navigation in dynamic public spaces through language reasoning.
title Social-LLaVA: Enhancing Robot Navigation through Human-Language Reasoning in Social Spaces
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Human-Computer Interaction
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.09024