Estimating Intention To Speak Using Non-Verbal Vocal Behavior

This research aims to answer the question whether non-verbal vocal behavior can be used to estimate intention to speak. To answer this question data from a dutch social networking event is used to gather intentions to speak. The intentions to speak are split up in two categories: successful and unsuccessful intentions. The unsuccessful...

Game-Theoretic Intention-Aware Planning for Autonomous Vehicles

As Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) navigate through dynamic and constantly changing environments, it is crucial that they take into account the impact of their actions on the decisions of others for safe and efficient interaction with humans. In doing so, they need to anticipate how humans will behave in different situations based on their intentions....

Interactive Imitation Learning for Force control: Position And Stiffness Teaching with Interactive Learning

To generalize the use of robotics, there are a few hurdles still to take. One of these hurdles is the programming of the robots. Most robots on the market today employ position control, with a set of controller parameters tuned by an expert. This programming is quite expensive, only suited for a single task, in a single configuration, and not...

Context-based path prediction for targets with switching dynamics

Anticipating future situations from streaming sensor data is a key perception challenge for mobile robotics and automated vehicles. We address the problem of predicting the path of objects with multiple dynamic modes. The dynamics of such targets can be described by a Switching Linear Dynamical System (SLDS). However, predictions from this...