Tolunbüke, CanberkToz, Metin2020-04-302020-04-302018978-1-5386-7641-7https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12684/40936th International Conference on Control Engineering and Information Technology (CEIT) -- OCT 25-27, 2018 -- Istanbul, TURKEYWOS: 000491282100116The introduction of robots into the physical world of humans necessitates complying with the rules of society, such as respect for people's personal space. This study concentrates on the determination of the personal space of the humans when the mobile robots approach them because of the frequent use of these robots in recent years specifically in a service field. For this purpose, unlike other works, gender difference, as well as the rules peculiar to the social and cultural structure of the Turkish society have been taken into consideration instead of general social rules, and thus improvement of the personal space determination is intended to be peculiar to the Turkish society. Moreover, two main rules have been established to be the basis of this proposed method of personal space determination. It is aimed that mobile robots comply with the rules of Turkish society thanks to these main rules in the course of being used. According to study results, sample illustrations are presented by calculating the personal space for groups consisting of one, two, three, four and five persons. As a result of the calculations, the changes between individuals and groups' personal spaces are shown. In addition, a sample path planning application using Ant Lion Optimization (ALO) algorithm is also presented.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessPersonalspaceTurkish societyMobile robotGenderConference ObjectN/A