Robotic Contextual Awareness for Human-Robot Collaboration and Environmental Understanding

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.10372v1
• Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2026 15:49:27 GMT
• Title: Robotic Contextual Awareness for Human-Robot Collaboration and Environmental Understanding
• Abstract summary: This thesis explores two distinct but complementary research directions.<n>The first involves human re-identification and tracking to improve Human-Robot Collaboration.<n>The second focuses on enhancing the robot's overall perceptual capabilities to understand its environment geometrically and semantically.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: The transition of autonomous mobile robots from controlled industrial settings to dynamic, human-centric environments, such as manufacturing, logistics, and healthcare, has made their safe and autonomous operation a critical area of research. These sophisticated machines must be capable of perceiving, understanding, and interacting with their surroundings to navigate freely and perform complex tasks. A significant obstacle to achieving this is the lack of comprehensive contextual awareness, which requires a robot to recognize its spatial environment and identify the objects and actors within it. Without this perceptual knowledge, robots struggle to plan adaptive behaviors or engage in meaningful interaction with humans. This thesis presents novel solutions to this challenge by exploring two distinct but complementary research directions. The first direction involves human re-identification and tracking to improve Human-Robot Collaboration. Our developed approach enables a mobile robot to recognize a specific person, facilitating targeted collaboration while ignoring other individuals. The second direction focuses on enhancing the robot's overall perceptual capabilities to understand its environment geometrically and semantically. Geometric information is vital for motion planning and collision avoidance, while semantic knowledge provides the robot with a richer understanding for more advanced interaction. Both solutions are driven by the improvement of the semantical understanding of robots that enhance their knowledge of their surroundings, allowing a smoother and more natural interaction between robots, humans, and the environment. The contributions of this work in human re-identification and environmental understanding represent a significant step toward a future where robots are more contextually aware, enabling safer coexistence and more effective collaboration.

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