Hubero : a framework to simulate human behaviour in robot research

Social robots’ software is commonly tested in a simula‐ tion due to the safety and convenience reasons as well as an environment configuration repeatability assurance. An interaction between a robot and a human requires ta‐ king a person presence and his movement abilities into consideration. The purpose of the article is to present the HuBeRo framework, which can be used to simulate hu‐ man motion behaviour. The framework allows indepen‐ dent control of each individual’s activity, which distinguis‐ hes the presented approach from state‐of‐the‐art, open‐ source solutions from the robotics domain. The article presents the framework assumptions, architecture, and an exemplary application with respect to presented sce‐ narios.