AI RESEARCH
CANINE: Coaching Visually Impaired Users for Interactive Navigation with a Robot Guide Dog
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2605.19501v1 Announce Type: cross Robot guide dogs offer navigation assistance that greatly expands the independent mobility of the visually impaired, but their effective use requires subtle human-robot coordination that is difficult for users to learn from generic verbal instructions. To tackle this challenge, we present CANINE, an automated coaching system that trains users for interactive navigation with a robot guide dog, through personalized, adaptive verbal feedback. CANINE decomposes a complex coordination task into sub-skills and operates at two levels.