Learning from demonstration algorithms enable a robot to learn a new policy based on demonstrations provided by a teacher. In this article, we explore a novel research direction, multi-robot learning from demonstration, which extends demonstration based learning methods to collaborative multi-robot domains. Specifically, we study the problem of enabling a single person to teach individual polic...

Abstract Under-staffing of nurses is a significant problem in most countries. It expected to rise the coming years, making it challenging perform crucial tasks like assessing patient's condition, assisting surgeon medical procedures, catheterization and Blood Transfusion etc., Automation some essential would be viable idea overcome this shortage nurses. One such task intended automate role 'Scr...

Collaborative control is a teleoperation system model based on human–robot dialogue. With this model, the robot asks questions to the human in order to obtain assistance with cognition and perception. This enables the human to function as a resource for the robot and help to compensate for limitations of autonomy. To understand how collaborative control influences human–robot interaction, we pe...

This paper presents a survey of architectures to integrate humanoid robots in collaborative working environmentse in different real situations. An extensive state of the art is described, and their limitations are addressed. A pattern of architecture is given, and a partial implementation is proposed on a HRP-2 robot. This work is motivated by an European Project called Robot@CWE exploring robo...

Abstract Needles are key tools to realize minimally invasive interventions. Physicians commonly rely on subjectively perceived insertion forces at the distal end of needle when advancing tip desired target. However, detecting tissue transitions is difficult since sensed dominated by shaft forces. Disentangling has potential substantially improve placement accuracy.We propose a collaborative sys...

We have developed a new teleoperation system model called collaborative control. With this model, the robot asks the human questions, to obtain assistance with cognition and perception during task execution. This enables the human to support the robot and to compensate for inadequacies in autonomy. In the following, we review the system models conventionally used in teleoperation, describe coll...

We are addressing the problem of creating empathic robot tutors to support school students studying geography topics on a multitouch table. A multi-role serious game Enercities-2 has been developed from an earlier single-user version in which a Mayor, Economist and Environmentalist have control over differing resources. The game explores the tension between individual and collaborative success....

Rapid robotic system development sets a demand for multi-disciplinary methods and tools to explore and compare design alternatives. In this paper, we present collaborative modelling that combines discrete-event models of controller software with continuous-time models of physical robot components. The presented co-modelling method utilized VDM for discrete-event and 20-sim for continuous-time m...