Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Simultaneous Localization and Mapping(also: SLAM)
- A foundational robotics technique in which a robot constructs a map of an unknown environment while simultaneously estimating its own pose within that map. SLAM combines sensor input (typically LiDAR, depth cameras, or monocular vision) with probabilistic state estimation…
- Social Navigation(also: Socially-aware navigation, Socially compliant robot navigation)
- In robotics, the problem of moving through an environment that contains people, in a way that respects social norms, comfort, and safety. Social navigation goes beyond obstacle avoidance: it requires predicting pedestrian intentions, respecting personal space, interpreting…
- Social Robot Navigation(also: Socially-aware robot navigation, Social navigation)
- A subfield of robotics concerned with how a mobile robot should move through environments shared with humans — choosing paths, speeds, and timings that respect social norms as well as physical obstacle avoidance. Classic robot-navigation algorithms optimise for shortest-path…
- Suitcase Robot(also: Suitcase-shaped robot, Robotic suitcase)
- A class of autonomous navigation robots housed inside a rolling suitcase or carry-on-shaped enclosure, designed so that a blind or low-vision user can grip the handle and be guided to a destination while appearing to any onlooker to simply be walking with a piece of luggage. The…
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