Behavior control of the mobile robot for accompanying in front of a human

Different behaviors for the companion robot have already been extensively studied in the field of human-robot interaction. However, the accompanying “in front of the leader” behavior presented on this paper is a useful and challenging behavior that has been overlooked by existing works. In this paper we explain the motivation behind this study and propose control strategy to implement this behavior.

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