This paper reports on our research on developing the ability for robots to engage with humans in a collaborative conversation. Engagement is the process by which two (or more) participants establish, maintain and end their perceived connection during interactions they jointly undertake. The paper makes two contributions: an architecture for human-robot collaborative conversation with engagement...

Multi-modal visualization, as a tool for collaborative exploration of complex datasets or simulations, is rapidly becoming important. In this paper we discuss a case study in collabo-rative visualization on Robot soccer. Our visualization work covers the three major platform types: Cave, workbench and workstation. We chart what the relation is between platform and visualization and show what th...

mobile robot navigation is one of the basic problems in robotics. in this paper, a new approachis proposed for autonomous mobile robot navigation in an unknown environment. the proposedapproach is based on learning virtual parallel paths that propel the mobile robot toward the trackusing a multi-layer, feed-forward neural network. for training, a human operator navigates themobile robot in some...

Abstract Human-robot collaboration (HRC) is critical to today’s tendency towards high-flexible assembly in manufacturing. Human action recognition, as one of the core prerequisites for HRC, enables industrial robots understand human intentions and execute planning adaptively. However, existing deep learning-based recognition methods rely heavily on a huge amount annotation data, which may not b...

Human–Robot Collaboration (HRC) is an interdisciplinary research area that has gained attention within the smart manufacturing context. To address changes processes, HRC seeks to combine impressive physical capabilities of robots with cognitive abilities humans design tasks high efficiency, repeatability, and adaptability. During implementation cell, a key activity robot programming takes into ...

A major problem in programming failure-prone collaborative robots is liveness. How do we ensure that the failure of one robot does not cause other robots to be permanently unavailable if, for example, that robot was a leader of others? In this paper, we propose a general mechanism which could be added to existing RPC libraries that allows applications to detect failure and execute programmer-sp...

Telepresence robots have emerged as a new means of interaction in remote environments. However, the use of such robots is still limited due to safety and usability issues when operating in human-like environments. This work addresses these issues by enhancing the robot navigation through a collaborative control method that assists the user to negotiate obstacles. The method has been implemented...