The Role of Roles: Physical Cooperation between Humans and Robots

Mörtl, Alexander, Lawitzky, Martin, Kucukyilmaz, Ayse , Sezgin, Tevfik Metin, Basdogan, Cagatay and Hirche, Sandra (2012) The Role of Roles: Physical Cooperation between Humans and Robots. The International Journal of Robotics Research, 31 (13). pp. 1656-1674. ISSN 0278-3649

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Abstract

Since the strict separation of working spaces of humans and robots has experienced a softening due to recent robotics research achievements, close interaction of humans and robots comes rapidly into reach. In this context, physical human–robot interaction raises a number of questions regarding a desired intuitive robot behavior. The continuous bilateral information and energy exchange requires an appropriate continuous robot feedback. Investigating a cooperative manipulation task, the desired behavior is a combination of an urge to fulfill the task, a smooth instant reactive behavior to human force inputs and an assignment of the task effort to the cooperating agents. In this paper, a formal analysis of human–robot cooperative load transport is presented. Three different possibilities for the assignment of task effort are proposed. Two proposed dynamic role exchange mechanisms adjust the robot’s urge to complete the task based on the human feedback. For comparison, a static role allocation strategy not relying on the human agreement feedback is investigated as well. All three role allocation mechanisms are evaluated in a user study that involves large-scale kinesthetic interaction and full-body human motion. Results show tradeoffs between subjective and objective performance measures stating a clear objective advantage of the proposed dynamic role allocation scheme.

Keywords:Robotics, cooperative manipulation, human feedback, input decomposition, load sharing, kinesthetic interaction
Subjects:H Engineering > H671 Robotics
H Engineering > H670 Robotics and Cybernetics
Divisions:College of Science > School of Computer Science
ID Code:31162
Deposited On:30 Aug 2018 09:07

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