Foul 2050: thoughts on physical interaction in human-robot soccer

Author

Haddadin, Sami ; Laue, Tim ; Frese, Udo ; Hirzinger, Gerd

Author_Institution

DLR - German Aerosp. Center, Wessling

fYear

2007

fDate

Oct. 29 2007-Nov. 2 2007

Firstpage

3243

Lastpage

3250

Abstract

The RoboCup community has one definite goal: winning against the human world soccer champion team by the year 2050. This implies real tackles and fouls between humans and robots and rises safety concerns for the robots and even more important for the human players. Nowadays, similar questions are discussed in the field of physical human- robot interaction (pHRI), but mainly in the context of industrial and service robotics applications. Our paper is an attempt for a pHRI view on human-robot soccer. Technically, this will be years ahead, but still we believe it is enlighting to analyze the RoboCup vision from the perspective of pHRI. We take scenes from the 2006 FIFA World Cup as examples and discuss what could have happened if one of the teams consisted of robots instead of humans.

Keywords

man-machine systems; mobile robots; multi-robot systems; FIFA World Cup; RoboCup community; human players; human world soccer champion team; human-robot soccer; physical human-robot interaction; service robotics; Context-aware services; Human robot interaction; Injuries; Intelligent robots; Layout; Notice of Violation; Robot sensing systems; Safety; Service robots; USA Councils;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2007. IROS 2007. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0912-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0912-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IROS.2007.4399464

Filename

4399464