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Not an Obstacle for Dog, but a Hazard for Human: A Co-Ego Navigation System for Guide Dog Robots
Description
Guide dogs offer independence to Blind and Low-Vision (BLV) individuals, yet their limited availability leaves the vast majority of BLV users without access. Quadruped robotic guide dogs present a promising alternative, but existing systems rely solely on the robot's ground-level sensors for navigation, overlooking a critical class of hazards: obstacles that are transparent to the robot yet dangerous at human body height, such as bent branches. We term this the viewpoint asymmetry problem and pr