Smart walkers may be used to assist human navigation. However, social conventions and human behavior should be taken into consideration to allow their interaction with other people. This paper presents a navigation strategy for a smart walker with social conventions defined by proxemics, which uses an admittance controller to generate haptic and visual signals for a safe navigation within a corridor. This controller was validated in two experiments. The first one consisted of recreating, in a simulation environment, five typical situations that could occur in a corridor. The second experiment consisted of validating the controller in a real environment within the corridor. In this case, people generate uncontrolled situations in the corridor. This controller allowed a safe social navigation with a comfortable velocity of 0.244 m/s ± 0.1196.

智能助行器可用于协助人类导航。但是，应考虑社会惯例和人类行为，以使其与他人互动。本文介绍了一种智能步行器的导航策略，该智能步行器具有由近邻定义的社交惯例，该策略使用导纳控制器生成触觉和视觉信号，以在走廊内安全导航。该控制器已在两个实验中得到验证。第一个步骤包括在模拟环境中重新创建走廊中可能发生的五个典型情况。第二个实验包括在走廊内的真实环境中验证控制器。在这种情况下，人们会在走廊上产生不受控制的情况。该控制器允许以0.244 m / s±0.1196的舒适速度进行安全的社交导航。