Title
Towards safe human-robot interaction
Abstract
The development of human-assistive robots challenges engineering and introduces new ethical and legal issues. One fundamental concern is whether human-assistive robots can be trusted. Essential components of trustworthiness are usefulness and safety; both have to be demonstrated before such robots could stand a chance of passing product certification. This paper describes the setup of an environment to investigate safety and liveness aspects in the context of human-robot interaction. We present first insights into setting up and testing a humanrobot interaction system in which the role of the robot is that of serving drinks to a human. More specifically, we use this system to investigate when the right time is for the robot to release the drink such that the action is both safe and useful. We briefly outline follow-on research that uses the safety and liveness properties of this scenario as specification.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2011
TAROS
fundamental concern,human-assistive robots challenges engineering,liveness aspect,human-assistive robot,towards safe human-robot interaction,human-robot interaction,legal issue,follow-on research,liveness property,essential component,humanrobot interaction system
Field
DocType
Citations 
Product certification,Robot hand,Trustworthiness,Computer security,Computer science,Human–computer interaction,Robot,Human–robot interaction,Humanoid robot,Liveness
Conference
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.42
6
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Elena Corina Grigore1164.50
Kerstin Eder223226.56
Alexander Lenz3756.52
Sergey Skachek4232.24
Anthony G. Pipe525539.08
Chris Melhuish674787.61