Learning Human Preferences for Physical Human-Robot Cooperation

Physical human-robot cooperation (pHRC) has the potential to combine human and robot strengths in a team that can achieve more than a human and a robot working on the task separately. However, how much of the potential can be realized depends on the quality of cooperation, in which awarenes of the partner’s intention and preferences plays an...

An Incremental Inverse Reinforcement Learning Approach for Motion Planning with Separated Path and Velocity Preferences

Humans often demonstrate diverse behaviors due to their personal preferences, for instance, related to their individual execution style or personal margin for safety. In this paper, we consider the problem of integrating both path and velocity preferences into trajectory planning for robotic manipulators. We first learn reward functions that...

Human Modeling in Physical Human-Robot Interaction: A Brief Survey

The advancement and development of human modeling have greatly benefited from principles used in robotics, for instance, multibody dynamics laid the foundations for physics engines of human movement simulation, and the robotics and control theory were used to contextualize human sensorimotor control. There are many common interests and...

Robotic Skill Mutation in Robot-to-Robot Propagation During a Physically Collaborative Sawing Task

Skill propagation among robots without human involvement can be crucial in quickly spreading new physical skills to many robots. In this respect, it is a good alternative to pure reinforcement learning, which can be time-consuming, or learning from human demonstration, which requires human involvement. In the latter case, there may not be...

A capability-aware role allocation approach to industrial assembly tasks

The deployment of industrial robotic cells based on lean manufacturing principles enables the development of fast-reconfigurable assembly lines in which human and robotic agents collaborate to achieve a shared task. To ensure the effective coordination of the shared effort, each task must be decomposed into a sequence of atomic actions that can...

Nonlinear fuzzy observer for payload estimation in physical human-robot interaction

Robotics have developed at a very high rate in the last few years. Industries are becoming capable of automating repetitive procedures without pause, and the production speed and quality are improving everyday. The main drawback of robotics in industry is the inability to deal with slight changes in an environment or in certain object parameters...

Detecting Human Intention in Physical human robot interaction

Human assist robotic systems cooperate with human for performing a task. In human power amplifying systems, human and robot interact physically and the robotic arm augments the force of the human, while he still perceives a part of the mass of the controlled object. Human skill and robotic power are combined into one system and due to the human...