Applying a priming mechanism for intention recognition in shared control

In many robotics shared control applications, users are forced to focus hard on the robot due to the task´s high sensitivity or the robot´s misunderstanding of the user´s intention. This brings frustration and dissatisfaction to the user and reduces overall efficiency. The user´s intention is sometimes unclear and hard to identify without some kind of bias in the identification process. In this paper, we present a solution in which an attentional mechanism helps the robot to recognize the user´s intention. The solution uses a priming mechanism and parameterized behavior primitives to support intention recognition and improve shared control for teleoperation tasks.