Title :
On human models for collaborative robots
Author_Institution :
LAAS, Univ. de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
Abstract :
Human-robot collaboration requires to equip the robot with explicit reasoning on the human and on its own capacities to achieve its tasks in a collaborative way with a human partner. We present a robot control system which has been especially designed for a cognitive robot which shares space and task with a human. We have adopted a constructive approach based on effective individual and collaborative skills. The system is comprehensive since it aims at dealing with a complete set of abilities articulated so that the robot controller is effectively able to conduct a collaborative task with a human partner in a flexible manner. These abilities include geometric reasoning and situation assessment based essentially on perspective-taking and affordances, management and exploitation by the robot of each agent beliefs (human and robot) in a separate cognitive model, human-aware task planning and human and robot interleaved plan achievement.
Keywords :
human-robot interaction; spatial reasoning; cognitive model; cognitive robot; collaborative robots; collaborative skills; collaborative task; constructive approach; explicit reasoning; geometric reasoning; human models; human-aware task planning; human-robot collaboration; human-robot interleaved plan achievement; individual skills; robot control system; situation assessment; Cognition; Collaboration; Context; Monitoring; Planning; Robots; Sparks; Affordances; Human-aware task planning; Human-robot collaboration;
Conference_Titel :
Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS), 2013 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-6403-4
DOI :
10.1109/CTS.2013.6567228