Human Robot Interaction (HRI) Metrics

HRI metrics is a collection of Metrics to evaluate Social Robot Navigation performance.

Responsibility and Engagement Metrics

Most notably, this repository contains the code for the recently proposed Responsibility and Engagement metrics from our recent paper Responsibility and Engagement – Evaluating Interactions in Social Robot Navigation, accepted at the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA)

please cite as

@misc{probst2025responsibilityengagementevaluating,
      title={Responsibility and Engagement -- Evaluating Interactions in Social Robot Navigation},
      author={Malte Probst and Raphael Wenzel and Monica Dasi},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2509.12890},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.RO},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12890},

Coming soon: exact instructions on how to recreate the results. For now, check the file test_metrics.py

Getting Started

For developer setup, please refer docs/HowTo.md file.

Environment Setup

Activate the virtual environment:

source .venv/bin/activate

Setup

• Prepare the Python environment:

uv sync

• Run the program within the uv environment:

uv run <program-name> <program-arguments> (or) simply use python syntax

Related links

• uv