-- Intelligent assist devices (IADs) are a new class of hybrid1 devices for direct, physical, interaction with a human operator in shared workspaces. These devices
Prasad Akella, Michael A. Peshkin, J. Edward Colga...
— This paper addresses the problem of classifying places in the environment of a mobile robot into semantic categories. We believe that semantic information about the type of pla...
— In recent work, “interaction patterns” have been proposed as a means to characterize essential features of humanrobot interaction. A problem arises, however, in knowing whe...
Peter H. Kahn Jr., Brian T. Gill, Aimee L. Reicher...
—Natural human-robot interaction requires different and more robust models of language understanding (NLU) than non-embodied NLU systems. In particular, architectures are require...
Rehj Cantrell, Matthias Scheutz, Paul W. Schermerh...
— Up to now, mostly blunt human-robot impacts were investigated in the robotics literature. In this context, the influence of robot mass and velocity during rigid impacts with a...