Издательство InTech, 2010, -308 pp.
Robot’s performance is increased greatly in recent years and their applications are not limited for industries and manufacturing. Robots are becoming a necessary part of our life and in near future, this trend will be increasing. In our future society, robots may nurse elderly, may look after children and may assist our household work. Furthermore, robots may work together with us in factories, offices and our homes. Robots may become our good friends. For realizing such a wonderful futures, there are still many hard problems both in technically and socially. As good friends know their characteristics each other, robots should have enough performance to know and understand the human.
Human-robot interaction (HRI) is the study of interactions between people (users) and robots. HRI is multidisciplinary with contributions from the fields of human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, robotics, speech recognition, and social science (psychology, cognitive science, anthropology, and human factors). There has been a great deal of work done in the area of human-robot interaction to understand how a human interacts with a computer. However, there has been very little work done in understanding how people interact with robots. For robots becoming our friends, these studies will be required more and more.
Therefore, the aim of this book is to provide an overview of the state-of-art, to present new ideas, original results and practical experiences. The content of this book has been structured into 5 technical research sections with 18 chapters written by well-recognized researchers world-side. I hope the readers of this book enjoy its reading and this book helps their understanding on HRI.
Human-Robot Communication
Understanding Activities and Intentions for Human-Robot Interaction
Interaction between a Human and an Anthropomorphized Object
Probo, an Intelligent Huggable Robot for HRI Studies with Children
Scaling Effects for Synchronous vs. Asynchronous Video in Multi-robot Search
Human-Robot Interaction Architectures
Handling Manually Programmed Task Procedures in Human–Service Robot Interactions
A Genetic Algorithm-based Approach to Dynamic Architectural Deployment
Comparison an On-screen Agent with a Robotic Agent in an Everyday Interaction Style: How to Make Users React Toward an On-screen Agent as if They are Reacting Toward a Robotic Agent
Assistive Robotics
Development of a Virtual Group Walking Support System
A Motion Control of a Robotic Walker for Continuous Assistance during Standing, Walking and Seating Operation
Sensors and Perception Designed for Human-Robot Interaction
Development and Performance Evaluation of a Neural Signal Based Computer Interface
Integration of Electrotactile and Force Displays for Telexistence
Predictive Tracking in Vision-based Hand Pose Estimation using Unscented Kalman Filter and Multi-viewpoint Cameras
Real Time Facial Feature Points Tracking with Pyramidal Lucas-Kanade Algorithm
Improving Human-Robot Interaction through Interface Evolution
Skill Based Approach with Human-Robot Interaction
Safe Cooperation between Human Operators and Visually Controlled Industrial Manipulators
Capturing and Training Motor Skills
Robot-Aided Leaing and r-Leaing Services
Design of a Neural Controller for Walking of a 5-Link Planar Biped Robot via Optimization
Robot’s performance is increased greatly in recent years and their applications are not limited for industries and manufacturing. Robots are becoming a necessary part of our life and in near future, this trend will be increasing. In our future society, robots may nurse elderly, may look after children and may assist our household work. Furthermore, robots may work together with us in factories, offices and our homes. Robots may become our good friends. For realizing such a wonderful futures, there are still many hard problems both in technically and socially. As good friends know their characteristics each other, robots should have enough performance to know and understand the human.
Human-robot interaction (HRI) is the study of interactions between people (users) and robots. HRI is multidisciplinary with contributions from the fields of human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, robotics, speech recognition, and social science (psychology, cognitive science, anthropology, and human factors). There has been a great deal of work done in the area of human-robot interaction to understand how a human interacts with a computer. However, there has been very little work done in understanding how people interact with robots. For robots becoming our friends, these studies will be required more and more.
Therefore, the aim of this book is to provide an overview of the state-of-art, to present new ideas, original results and practical experiences. The content of this book has been structured into 5 technical research sections with 18 chapters written by well-recognized researchers world-side. I hope the readers of this book enjoy its reading and this book helps their understanding on HRI.
Human-Robot Communication
Understanding Activities and Intentions for Human-Robot Interaction
Interaction between a Human and an Anthropomorphized Object
Probo, an Intelligent Huggable Robot for HRI Studies with Children
Scaling Effects for Synchronous vs. Asynchronous Video in Multi-robot Search
Human-Robot Interaction Architectures
Handling Manually Programmed Task Procedures in Human–Service Robot Interactions
A Genetic Algorithm-based Approach to Dynamic Architectural Deployment
Comparison an On-screen Agent with a Robotic Agent in an Everyday Interaction Style: How to Make Users React Toward an On-screen Agent as if They are Reacting Toward a Robotic Agent
Assistive Robotics
Development of a Virtual Group Walking Support System
A Motion Control of a Robotic Walker for Continuous Assistance during Standing, Walking and Seating Operation
Sensors and Perception Designed for Human-Robot Interaction
Development and Performance Evaluation of a Neural Signal Based Computer Interface
Integration of Electrotactile and Force Displays for Telexistence
Predictive Tracking in Vision-based Hand Pose Estimation using Unscented Kalman Filter and Multi-viewpoint Cameras
Real Time Facial Feature Points Tracking with Pyramidal Lucas-Kanade Algorithm
Improving Human-Robot Interaction through Interface Evolution
Skill Based Approach with Human-Robot Interaction
Safe Cooperation between Human Operators and Visually Controlled Industrial Manipulators
Capturing and Training Motor Skills
Robot-Aided Leaing and r-Leaing Services
Design of a Neural Controller for Walking of a 5-Link Planar Biped Robot via Optimization