scholarly journals Robot Partner Development Platform for Human-Robot Interaction Based on a User-Centered Design Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (22) ◽  
pp. 7992
Author(s):  
Jinseok Woo ◽  
Yasuhiro Ohyama ◽  
Naoyuki Kubota
Keyword(s):  
System Integration ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Service Robots ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
Smart Device ◽  
User Centered Design ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Robot Interaction ◽  
Development Platform

This paper presents a robot partner development platform based on smart devices. Humans communicate with others based on the basic motivations of human cooperation and have communicative motives based on social attributes. Understanding and applying these communicative motives become important in the development of socially-embedded robot partners. Therefore, it is becoming more important to develop robots that can be applied according to needs while taking these human communication elements into consideration. The role of a robot partner is more important in not only on the industrial sector but also in households. However, it seems that it will take time to disseminate robots. In the field of service robots, the development of robots according to various needs is important and the system integration of hardware and software becomes crucial. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a robot partner development platform for human-robot interaction. Firstly, we propose a modularized architecture of robot partners using a smart device to realize a flexible update based on the re-usability of hardware and software modules. In addition, we show examples of implementing a robot system using the proposed architecture. Next, we focus on the development of various robots using the modular robot partner system. Finally, we discuss the effectiveness of the proposed robot partner system through social implementation and experiments.

Vision-based Human-Robot Interaction Components for URC Intelligent Service Robots

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keun-chang Kwak ◽  
Do-hyung Kim ◽  
Byoung-youl Song ◽  
Dae-ha Lee ◽  
Soo-young Chi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Service Robots ◽  
Robot Interaction

Human-Robot Interaction Design Using Smart Device Based Robot Partner

2019 ◽  
pp. 119-140
Author(s):  
Jinseok Woo ◽  
Naoyuki Kubota
Keyword(s):  
Nonverbal Communication ◽  
Interaction Design ◽  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
Smart Device ◽  
Design Support ◽  
Motion Patterns ◽  
Software Modules ◽  
Content Design ◽  
Design Support Environment

Nowadays, various robot partners have been developed to realize human-friendly interactions. In general, a robot system is composed of hardware modules, software modules, and application contents. It takes much time to design utterance contents and motion patterns as application contents simultaneously, but the design support systems mainly focus on the generation of robot motion patterns. Furthermore, a methodology is needed to easily change the specification of hardware and software according to diversified needs, and the developmental environment to design the application contents on verbal and nonverbal communication with people. In this paper, the authors propose robot partners with the modularized architecture of hardware and software by using smart devices, and propose a developmental environment to realize easy contents design of verbal and nonverbal communication. In order to solve the problem of difficulty in the content design, they develop a design support environment using design templates of communication application contents. Next, they apply the robot partner to navigate visitors to the robot contest of the system design forum held in Tokyo Metropolitan University. Finally, they show several examples of the interaction cases, and discuss the interaction design for smart device based robot partners.

scholarly journals Turn-Taking Based on Information Flow for Fluent Human-Robot Interaction

AI Magazine ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 53-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea L. Thomaz ◽  
Crystal Chao
Keyword(s):  
Information Flow ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Robot Interaction ◽  
Human Skill ◽  
Fundamental Part ◽  
Turn Taking

Turn-taking is a fundamental part of human communication. Our goal is to devise a turn-taking framework for human-robot interaction that, like the human skill, represents something fundamental about interaction, generic to context or domain. We propose a model of turn-taking, and conduct an experiment with human subjects to inform this model. Our findings from this study suggest that information flow is an integral part of human floor-passing behavior. Following this, we implement autonomous floor relinquishing on a robot and discuss our insights into the nature of a general turn-taking model for human-robot interaction.

scholarly journals Implications from Responsible Human-Robot Interaction with Anthropomorphic Service Robots for Design Science

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merlind Knof ◽  
Judith S. Heinisch ◽  
Jérôme Kirchhoff ◽  
Niyati Rawal ◽  
Klaus David ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Design Science ◽  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Service Robots ◽  
Robot Interaction

Human-Robot Interaction Design: Understanding User Needs and Requirements

2005 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 447-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie A. Adams
Keyword(s):  
Interaction Design ◽  
Task Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Evaluation ◽  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
User Needs ◽  
User Centered Design ◽  
Robot Interaction ◽  
Human Capabilities ◽  
Goal Hierarchy ◽  
Preliminary Communication

Goal-Directed Task Analysis is being applied to assessing the needs and requirements for developing novel techniques and tools to permit a small number of humans to supervise large robotic teams. The paper presents a preliminary overall goal hierarchy as well as a preliminary communication goal hierarchy based upon the initial analysis. This research involves working directly with the Nashville Metro Police department's Bomb Squad and the Nashville Metro Fire Department's HAZMAT team. The focus is the assessment of actual user needs and requirements employing well-defined user centered design practices in combination with Goal-Directed Task Analysis. The resulting Goal- Decision-SA structure will be employed to develop potential human-robot interaction designs for further qualitative and qualitative evaluation. The objective is to successfully integrate robots into the Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosive device search and rescue tasks such that the robots complement and augment the current human capabilities.

scholarly journals A corroborative approach to verification and validation of human–robot teams

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matt Webster ◽  
David Western ◽  
Dejanira Araiza-Illan ◽  
Clare Dixon ◽  
Kerstin Eder ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Verification And Validation ◽  
Service Robots ◽  
Robot Interaction ◽  
Interaction Task ◽  
Real Robot ◽  
Functional Correctness ◽  
Corroborative Evidence ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Verification Model

We present an approach for the verification and validation (V&V) of robot assistants in the context of human–robot interactions, to demonstrate their trustworthiness through corroborative evidence of their safety and functional correctness. Key challenges include the complex and unpredictable nature of the real world in which assistant and service robots operate, the limitations on available V&V techniques when used individually, and the consequent lack of confidence in the V&V results. Our approach, called corroborative V&V, addresses these challenges by combining several different V&V techniques; in this paper we use formal verification (model checking), simulation-based testing, and user validation in experiments with a real robot. This combination of approaches allows V&V of the human–robot interaction task at different levels of modeling detail and thoroughness of exploration, thus overcoming the individual limitations of each technique. We demonstrate our approach through a handover task, the most critical part of a complex cooperative manufacturing scenario, for which we propose safety and liveness requirements to verify and validate. Should the resulting V&V evidence present discrepancies, an iterative process between the different V&V techniques takes place until corroboration between the V&V techniques is gained from refining and improving the assets (i.e., system and requirement models) to represent the human–robot interaction task in a more truthful manner. Therefore, corroborative V&V affords a systematic approach to “meta-V&V,” in which different V&V techniques can be used to corroborate and check one another, increasing the level of certainty in the results of V&V.

Project Donaxi@HOME Service Robot

2013 ◽  
Vol 423-426 ◽  
pp. 2817-2820 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hector S. Vargas ◽  
Edson Olmedo ◽  
Aldo Daniel Martinez ◽  
Victor Poisot ◽  
Agustin Perroni ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Service Robots ◽  
Service Robot ◽  
Robot Interaction ◽  
Effective Implementation ◽  
Modular Software ◽  
Detection And Tracking ◽  
Home Service Robot ◽  
Home Service ◽  
Human Face Detection

Donaxi is a prototype to improve their different capacities in the area of service robotics. This paper describes the functional architecture design and the different modules that integrate it of the service robot Donaxi of UPAEP. Novel results are presented here in the area of face recognition; we propose theHybrid Algorithm to Human-Face Detection and Tracking UnrestrictedandIdentification of People on the Floor Due to a Fall or Other Accident. The robot Donaxi is used as a vehicle for research in control of movement and human-robot interaction. The at Home League of RoboCup provides an ideal tested for such aspects of dynamic in motion indoor, skills to manipulate objects, aptitudes to intergesticulate with the persons in natural language and more. A modular software architecture as well as further technologies have been developed for efficient and effective implementation and test of modules for sensing, planning, behavior, and actions of service robots.

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