This article describes our open-source software for predicting the intention of a user physically interacting with the humanoid robot iCub. Our goal is to allow the robot to infer the intention of the human partner during collaboration, by predicting the future intended trajectory: this capability is critical to design anticipatory behaviors that are crucial in human–robot collaborative scenari...

The Metrics for Human-Robot Interaction 2008 workshop at the 3rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction was initiated and organized to further discussion and community progress towards metrics for human-robot interaction (HRI). This report contains the papers presented at the workshop, background information on the workshop itself, and future directions underway within the...

Up to now, state-of-the-art industrial robots played the most important role in real-world applications and more advanced, highly sensorized robots were usually kept in lab environments and remained in a prototypical stadium. Various factors like low robustness and the lack of computing power were large hurdles in realizing robotic systems for highly demanding tasks in e.g. domestic environment...

A novel backdrivable 3-[ R ( R- RR)SR] kinematically redundant (6+3)-degree-of-freedom (DOF) spatial hybrid parallel robot with revolute actuators is proposed for low-impedance physical human–robot interaction. The kinematic model developed based on the constraint conditions of robot. It sho...

Despite recent advances in getting autonomous robots to follow instructions from humans, strategically intelligent robot behaviours have received less attention. Strategic intelligence entails influence over the beliefs of other interacting agents, possibly adversarial. In this paper, we present a learning framework for strategic interaction shaping in physical robotic systems, where an autonom...

Musculoskeletal disorders of the wrist are common in meat industry. A proof concept a physical human-robot interaction (pHRI)-based assistive strategy for an industrial cutting system is demonstrated which can be transferred to exoskeleton later. We discuss how robot assist human pHRI, specifically context project i.e developed impedance control-based that enables KUKA LWR provide forces profes...