  In this paper, we propose a SOCratic model for Robots Approaching humans
based on TExt System (SOCRATES) focusing on the human search and approach based
on free-form textual description; the robot first searches for the target user,
then the robot proceeds to approach in a human-friendly manner. In particular,
textual descriptions are composed of appearance (e.g., wearing white shirts
with black hair) and location clues (e.g., is a student who works with robots).
We initially present a Human Search Socratic Model that connects large
pre-trained models in the language domain to solve the downstream task, which
is searching for the target person based on textual descriptions. Then, we
propose a hybrid learning-based framework for generating target-cordial robotic
motion to approach a person, consisting of a learning-from-demonstration module
and a knowledge distillation module. We validate the proposed searching module
via simulation using a virtual mobile robot as well as through real-world
experiments involving participants and the Boston Dynamics Spot robot.
Furthermore, we analyze the properties of the proposed approaching framework
with human participants based on the Robotic Social Attributes Scale (RoSAS)

Robotics;Artificial Intelligence