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Motivated by functional interpretations of spatial language terms, and the need for cognitively plausible and practical abstractions for mobile service robots, we present a spatial representation based on the physical support of one object by another, corresponding to the preposition “on”. A perceptual model for evaluating this relation is suggested, and experiments - simulated as well as using a...
Face-to-face human communication is a multimodal and incremental process. An intelligent robot that operates in close relation with humans should have the ability to communicate with its human colleagues in such manner. The process of understanding and responding to multimodal inputs has been an interesting field of research and resulted in advancements in areas such as syntactic and semantic analysis,...
We constructed a 1 DOF power assist robot for lifting objects of different sizes. We hypothesized that human's perception of weight due to inertia might be different from the perceived weight due to gravity when lifting an object with the power assist robot. In this article, we particularly looked at human's load force features, weight perception and object's motions in lifting objects with the power...
This paper presents an investigation focused on cooperation of a small industrial robot and a human operator. During their cooperation the collision is expected only between the robot end-effector and the lower arm of the human worker. To ensure safe and comfortable human-robot interaction the impact must not cause any injury or considerable pain to the human operator. An investigation with human...
This paper describes and discusses the preliminary results of a behavioural study on robot social acceptability, which was carried out during a public demonstration in South Korea. Data was collected by means of direct observation of people behaviour during interaction with robots. The most interesting result to emerge is that of young people: they tended to react to the robots presence with extreme...
This paper introduces the industrial design of the social robot `Flobi'. In total, three key concepts influenced the industrial design: First, the robot head of Flobi appears as a cartoon-like character and has a `hole-free' design without any visible conjunctions. Second, Flobi has dynamic features to display not only primary emotions, but also shame, a typical secondary emotion. Third, the structural...
A group of participants performed a collaborative conveyer task that needs to transfer objects to designated positions by vehicles in a virtual space. All utterances were transcribed and questioning utterances were specified based on rising intonation patterns and content of the speech. Then we classified these utterances into four types: planning (ask whole transporting strategy in task), partner's...
Telemedicine is a new and promising application in the field of medical science. Medical consulting and remote medical procedures or examinations became more effective with the development of interactive audiovisual systems and remote mobile robotic platforms. Tele-presence requires real time video transmission. Fixed mounting of video device on mobile robotic platform limits the video projection...
Even if a cellular manufacturing system is robot assisted with assembly support, the main operator is human. A system designer cannot therefore ignore the mental strain experienced by the operator as a result of improper assembly support. In this paper, authors analyzed operators' mental strain induced by physical and informational support in an advanced cellular manufacturing system with human-robot...
Personal robots anticipated to become popular in the future are required to be active in joint work and community life with humans. These personal robots must recognize changing environment and must conduct adequate actions like human. Visual tracking can be said as a fundamental function from the view point of environmental sensing and reflex reaction against it. The authors developed a visual tracking...
When we have to physically interact with a robot, the benchmark for natural and efficient performance is our experience of daily interactions with other humans. This goal is still far despite significant advances in human-robot interaction. While considerable progress is made in various areas ranging from improving the hardware over safety measures to better sensor systems, the research on basic mechanisms...
It is believe that developing a robot without considering users feedback on appearance, functions and behavior will cause a share in the failure of research and evaluation of human robot interaction. This paper researched and solicited feedback from targeted users on their expectations and views of a robot, which will be used as a receptionist in a Singapore research centre. Based on design inputs...
This paper presents a guidance method using a laser pointer attached to a librarian robot and gestures consist of body movements. Our librarian robot, that is fixed in an experimental environment, is able to say greeting properly based on estimation results of human behavior using a laser range finder, talk with a library user with a natural language, search books depending on a user's request. When...
An important challenge in service robotics is to design user interfaces and interaction capabilities that can be used intuitively to enable the potential users to benefit from the robot's functionalities and to allow effective collaborative task execution. The Interactive Behavior Operated shopping Trolley (InBOT) addresses this issue at the example of supporting complex shopping tasks in large supermarkets...
This paper presents a technique to learn flexible action selection in autonomous, multi-modal human-robot interaction (HRI) from observing multi-modal human-human interaction (HHI). A model is generated using the proposed technique with symbolic states and actions, representing the scope of the observed mission. Variations in human behavior can be learned as stochastic action effects while execution...
Technical developments, trends in popular culture and widespread interest in the scientific community can not account for the proliferation of robotic creatures in the art context, oddly neglected by art theory. In this paper we discuss robotic creation as a crucial domain for contemporary art theory taking as a point of reference the concepts of objecthood, interaction, conceptualisation and anthropomorphism.
Lovotics is a novel field of research that strives to achieve a close relationship between humans and robots by utilizing fundamental concepts from psychology, biology, neuroscience, and robotics to develop a model that effectively imitates human affection process to create an emotionally engaging robotic system with high level of intimacy. We have designed and developed a robotics system that is...
To improve productivity of assembly in cell production, human robot collaboration is introduced. In the collaboration, robot manipulator supports human operators by handing over an assembly part in the assembly process. However, when the human operator works coexisitently with the moving robot in close distance, it might induce high stress to the operator. This paper studies on strain measurement...
This paper presents the findings of a qualitative study exploring how mental models of a mechanoid robot using dog-inspired affective cues behaviour emerges and impacts the evaluation of the robot after the viewing of a video of an assistive robotics scenario interaction with the robot. It discusses this using contrasting case studies based on the analysis of explicitation interviews with three participants...
Comanipulation (i.e. a man and a robot sharing the same task) is an emerging robotics field. Despite interesting preliminary results, there is still a number of issues to be fixed for efficient implementation of cobotics, for example in the force amplification case. We will show how to solve problems like apparent inertia limitation, passivity constraints, force transient optimization, etc. Theoretical,...
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