Zayne Sprague
Papers
3
Total Citations
13
H-Index
3
About
Zayne Sprague is a robotics researcher specializing in multi-robot navigation, social robotics, and autonomous systems operating in human-shared environments. His work addresses one of the field's most challenging problems: enabling robots to navigate complex indoor spaces — doorways, hallways, intersections, and roundabouts — safely and socially appropriately alongside humans and other autonomous agents. Sprague's most significant contribution is the development of SocialGym 2.0, a sophisticated multi-agent navigation simulator that replicates real-world dynamics for training and evaluating social robot behavior. This platform, cited six times since its 2024 release, has quickly become a valuable tool for researchers studying multi-agent coordination in realistic environments. His complementary work on decentralized social navigation introduces a novel bi-level optimization algorithm that allows non-cooperative robots to negotiate shared spaces in real time — without centralized coordination — earning four citations since 2023. Collectively accumulating 13 citations across three papers, Sprague's research bridges simulation and practical deployment, pushing the boundaries of how autonomous robots can function gracefully in unpredictable, human-populated spaces. His contributions offer foundational tools and algorithms for the next generation of socially intelligent robotic systems.
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