Title
A Framework for Human-Robot Interaction User Studies.
Abstract
Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) user studies are challenging to evaluate and compare due to a lack of standardization and the infrastructure required to implement each study. The lack of experimental infrastructure also makes it difficult to systematically evaluate the impact of individual components (e.g., the quality of perception software) on overall system performance. This work proposes a framework to ease the implementation and reproducibility of human-robot interaction user studies. The framework utilizes ROS middleware and is implemented with four modules: perception, decision, action, and metrics. The perception module aggregates sensor data to be used by the decision and action modules. The decision module is the task-level executive and can be designed by the HRI researcher for their specific task. The action module takes subtask requests from the decision module and breaks them down into motion primitives for execution on the robot. The metrics module tracks and generates quantitative metrics for the study. The framework is implemented with modular interfaces to allow for alternate implementations within each module and can be generalized for a variety of tasks and human/robot roles. The framework is illustrated through an example scenario involving a human and a Franka Emika Panda arm collaboratively assembling a toolbox together.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/IROS45743.2020.9341286
IROS
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Vidyasagar Rajendran100.34
Pamela Carreno272.50
Wesley Fisher300.68
Alexander Werner493.19
Dana Kulic595.37