In collaboration with Dr. Wesley Chan and Dr. Pamela Carreno-Medrano from the electrical engineering department, the HRI project aims to handle the issue of crowd navigation for robots to perform critical tasks such as package deliveries or hospital assistance. The aim is to have an agent navigate through a crowd without getting lost or colliding with anyone, but also behave in a socially confirmative way such that the robot moves in a predictable way to avoid making humans stop, slow down, or alter their intended path of travel. The agent would have to learn to keep to the left (in Australia), yield to other pedestrians, avoid cutting through groups of people and a wide variety of other behaviours that humans take for granted but are hard to describe in words.