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Human- Robots Interaction: Robotics Institute Focus Area

Human- Robots Interaction: Robotics Institute Focus Area. Vineet Kamat (CEE) Emily Mower Provost (CSE) Nadine Sarter (IOE) Dawn Tilbury (ME). Human commander/supervisor.

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Human- Robots Interaction: Robotics Institute Focus Area

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  1. Human-Robots Interaction:Robotics Institute Focus Area VineetKamat (CEE) Emily Mower Provost (CSE) Nadine Sarter (IOE) Dawn Tilbury (ME)

  2. Human commander/supervisor • “Autonomous” robots are rarely purely autonomous, there must be some level of human interaction, although these challenges are not always considered • Issues to consider in a human-robot coordination: • Mutual understanding, modeling on both sides • Can robot understand the human (e.g. emotion? Workload of human?) • Directed attention: Can robot get attention of human? And vice-versa • Function allocation in human-robot teams • How to learn states of agents (both human & robot) • Levels of autonomy, how to allocate for different tasks • Social aspects of mixed teams, expectations of partnership – grounding • Spillover boundaries from engineering to social science

  3. Physical interaction of human & robot • Teleoperation opportunities and challenges: • Virtual and augmented reality, visual feedback • Tactile/haptic feedback • Mechanical devices for sending commands (master/slave), joysticks, tablet computers • Voice and gesture commands • Sense of presence in remote environment • Teleoperation of a swarm of robots • Human(s) & robot(s) working closely together in a shared environment, • Safety, certification: can the robot get out of the cage? • Human driver in a car, how to interact, dynamic environment • If the car “gives up” the human has to take on the cognitive load. Need a transition period. • Q: Does the human need to be the commander all the time? Keep the human alert? • Exoskeletons: Robotics integrated with human limbs • Augment construction workers or other laborers • Rehabilitation • Quadriplegic • Embodiment: robot becomes part of human (wearable robots), using robot to interface to environment • Robots & humans working together to change the environment • Robot is a tool for doing work on the environment • Also exploring/gathering info from environment

  4. Other HRI considerations • Can the robot be considered as an extension of human (not delegate or partner) • Human’s perception of remote environment, immersion • Transfer of emotions to robot • How to characterize expectations of robot? • Rights of robots – philosophical issues? • Also responsibilities? • Hierarchy: Is human top/environment bottom? • “affordances” from psychology • Emergent behaviors? Unexpected behaviors?

  5. Others interested in HRI (?) • Ben Kuipers (CSE) • Ella Atkins (Aero) • Kira Barton (ME) • Gabor Orosz (ME) • Cindy Chestek (BME), brain-machine interface • Rehab robotics: Art, David, Brent, etc. • School of Information • Mark Newman • Lionel Robert (human-human interaction) • Medical school interest in surgical robotics • Somebody from psychology? (Toni Antonucci?) Neuroscience?

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