Visual Proactivity: Enhancing Human-Robot Collaboration Through Intent Communication

arXiv:2609.21729 · cs.RO · Submitted 2026-09-18 · Read on arXiv

cs.RO

Submitted: 2026-09-18

Updated: 2026-09-18

Comments: Accepted for publication at the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Alignment — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction — 2× in this paper
• Ablation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ablation study — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Clustering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cognitive Load — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Gaussian Mixture Models — 1× in this paper
• Inverse Problem — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Multi-agent Collaboration — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

Sources

• Through the Clutter: Exploring the Impact of Complex Environments on the Legibility of Robot Motion
• MediaPipe: A Framework for Building Perception Pipelines

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