TY - GEN
T1 - Projecting robot intentions into human environments
AU - Andersen, Rasmus S.
AU - Madsen, Ole
AU - Moeslund, Thomas B.
AU - Ben Amor, Hani
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.
PY - 2016/11/15
Y1 - 2016/11/15
N2 - Trained human co-workers can often easily predict each other's intentions based on prior experience. When collaborating with a robot coworker, however, intentions are hard or impossible to infer. This difficulty of mental introspection makes human-robot collaboration challenging and can lead to dangerous misunderstandings. In this paper, we present a novel, object-aware projection technique that allows robots to visualize task information and intentions on physical objects in the environment. The approach uses modern object tracking methods in order to display information at specific spatial locations taking into account the pose and shape of surrounding objects. As a result, a human co-worker can be informed in a timely manner about the safety of the workspace, the site of next robot manipulation tasks, and next subtasks to perform. A preliminary usability study compares the approach to collaboration approaches based on monitors and printed text. The study indicates that, on average, the user effectiveness and satisfaction is higher with the projection based approach.
AB - Trained human co-workers can often easily predict each other's intentions based on prior experience. When collaborating with a robot coworker, however, intentions are hard or impossible to infer. This difficulty of mental introspection makes human-robot collaboration challenging and can lead to dangerous misunderstandings. In this paper, we present a novel, object-aware projection technique that allows robots to visualize task information and intentions on physical objects in the environment. The approach uses modern object tracking methods in order to display information at specific spatial locations taking into account the pose and shape of surrounding objects. As a result, a human co-worker can be informed in a timely manner about the safety of the workspace, the site of next robot manipulation tasks, and next subtasks to perform. A preliminary usability study compares the approach to collaboration approaches based on monitors and printed text. The study indicates that, on average, the user effectiveness and satisfaction is higher with the projection based approach.
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U2 - 10.1109/ROMAN.2016.7745145
DO - 10.1109/ROMAN.2016.7745145
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85002780138
T3 - 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2016
SP - 294
EP - 301
BT - 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2016
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2016
Y2 - 26 August 2016 through 31 August 2016
ER -