Tentative Schedule
Local Time
(GMT-4)
Description
09:00 - 09:10
(10 min)
Overview and Introductions
Invited Talks Session 1:
Beyond Collision Avoidance: Norms, Intent, and Individuality
09:10 - 9:25
(15 min)
Wendy Ju (Cornell University)
"Social navigation is more than not running into people"
09:30 - 09:45
(15 min)
Maren Bennewitz (University of Bonn)
"From Pedestrian Reactions to user Preferences"
09:50 - 10:30
(40 min)
Moderated Q&A with Panel
10:30 - 11:20
(50 min)
Break & Poster Session 1 (Posters: 15, 3, 14, 1, 9, 16, 10)
Invited Talks Session 2:
Foundation Models and Human Modeling in Chaotic Open-world spaces
11:20 - 11:35
(15 min)
Christoforos Mavrogiannis (University of Michigan)
"Social navigation for fluent human-robot teamwork"
11:40 - 11:55
(15 min)
Bolei Zhou (University of California, Los Angeles)
"Towards Scaling AI Foundation Models for Sidewalk Autonomy"
11:55 - 12:35
(40 min)
Moderated Q&A with Panel
12:35 - 13:55
(80 min)
Break for Lunch + Robot Happy Hour!
13:55 - 14:20
(25 min)
Shortlisted Paper Presentations (5 min Pres. +3 min QA) + Benchmark Winners
13:55
Diffusion for Long-Horizon Multi-Robot Path Planning in Human-Shared Environments
14:03
Learning Social Navigation Strategies and Challenging Scenarios through Participatory Simulation
14:11
Learning Social Navigation from Internet Videos in the Policy State Space
Time Presentation
13:55 Diffusion for Long-Horizon Multi-Robot Path Planning in Human-Shared Environments
14:03 Learning Social Navigation Strategies and Challenging Scenarios through Participatory Simulation
14:11 Learning Social Navigation from Internet Videos in the Policy State Space
14:20 - 14:45
(25 min)
Announcement of all benchmark results
14:45 - 15:35
(50 min)
Break & Poster Session 2 (Posters: 13, 2, 6, 5, 11, 12, 7)
Invited Talks Session 3:
Moving through the masses: Scaling long range and trustworthy autonomy
15:35 - 15:50
(15 min)
Dinesh Manocha (University of Maryland, College Park)
"Towards Long-range Social Navigation"
15:50 - 16:05
(15 min)
Jiachen Li (Georgia Tech)
"Toward Safe and Robust Social Navigation under Distribution Shifts"
16:05 - 16:45
(40 min)
Moderated Q&A with Panel
16:45 - 17:00
(10 min)
Awards and Closing Remarks