An autonomous viscosity estimation using a dexterous dual-armed collaborative robot and three dimensional convolutional neural network model that strongly outperforms human abilities.

The use of collaborative robots (cobots) in industrial and academic settings facilitates physical cognitive interaction with operators. This framework is a challenge to determine how measures on concepts, such as usability, can be adapted these new environments. Usability quality attribute prevalent the field human-computer concerning context measure effectiveness, efficiency, satisfaction prod...

This work is focused on evaluating performance of a collaborative robot welding cell developed in our previous research. Such a cell is based on an interactive cooperation between a human supervisor and a welding robot. This approach to organizing a workstation allows to employ robots even in the case of prototypes or small productions. Research on collaborative robots usually focuses on safety...

Human-humanoid collaborative tasks require that the robot take into account the goals of the task, interaction forces with the human, and its own balance. We present a formulation for a real-time humanoid controller which allows the robot to keep itself stable, while also assisting the human in achieving their shared objectives. This is achieved with a multirobot quadratic program controller, w...

Object search is one of the typical tasks for remotely-controlled service robots. Although object recognition technologies have been well developed, an efficient search strategy (or viewpoint planning method) is still an issue. This paper describes a new approach to human-robot collaborative remote object search. An analogy for our approach is ride on shoulders; a user controls a fish-eye camer...

We present the Robot Gesture Library (RoGuE), a motion-planning approach to generating gestures. Gestures improve robot communication skills, strengthening robots as partners in a collaborative setting. Previous work maps from environment scenario to gesture selection. This work maps from gesture selection to gesture execution. We create a flexible and common language by parameterizing gestures...

DEMiR-CF is a generic framework designed for a multirobot team to efficiently allocate tasks among themselves and achieve an overall mission. In the design of DEMiR-CF, the following issues were particularly investigated as the design criteria: efficient and realistic representation of missions, efficient allocation of tasks to cooperatively achieve a global goal, maintenance of the system cohe...

In order to develop a friendly and safe interaction between humans and robots, it is essential for the robot to evaluate users’ affective states and respond accordingly. This paper investigates the use of physiological signals to estimate human affective states during a Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) task. We focus on characterizing physiological responses and understanding how affective states ...

Multi-robot remote driving has traditionally been a difficult problem. Whenever an operator is forced to divide his limited resources (attention, cognition, etc.) among multiple robots, control becomes complicated and performance deteriorates as a result. Thus, we need to find ways to make command generation and coordination efficient, so that human-robot interaction becomes transparent and tas...