Title
Reactive robot system using a haptic interface: an active interaction to transfer skills from the robot to unskilled persons
Abstract
This paper is concerned with the reactive robot system (RRS) which has been introduced as a novel way of approaching human-robot interactions by exploiting the capabilities of haptic interfaces to transfer skills (from the robot to unskilled persons). The RRS was implemented based on two levels of interaction. The first level, which implements the first two stages of the learning process, represents the conventional control way of interchanging a set of forces in response to a static read of the contact position of some pre-defined dynamic rules (passive interaction). The second level, which implements the last stage of the learning process, represents an enhanced way of interaction between haptic interfaces and humans. This level adds to robotic system a degree of intelligence which enables the robot to dynamically adapt its behavior depending on user wishes (active interaction). In particular, in this paper, the implementation of the second level of the RRS is described in detail. A set of experiments was performed, applied to Japanese handwriting, to verify if second level of the RRS can interact with humans during the autonomous stage of the learning process. The results demonstrated that our system can still provide assistance to users on the autonomous stage while mostly respecting their intentions without significantly affecting their performance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1163/156855307780131992
ADVANCED ROBOTICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
haptic interfaces,human-robot interaction,human learning process,hidden Markov models,handwriting
Robot learning,Robotic systems,Handwriting,Simulation,Artificial intelligence,Engineering,Robot,Hidden Markov model,Human–robot interaction,Haptic technology,Robotics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
21
3-4
0169-1864
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
14
2.46
6
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jorge Solis1142.46
Simone Marcheschi2457.81
Antonio Frisoli347665.01
Carlo Alberto Avizzano419636.19
Massimo Bergamasco547573.59