Human-Robot Interaction - Science topic

Robots equipped with artificial intelligence are being built to create a new kind of useful, friendly and helpful machine for humans. Already, the latest generations of microprocessors with which computers, laptops and smartphones are equipped have high computing and processing capacities that exceed those of the human brain. When new generations of artificial intelligence are implemented in computers with high computing and multi-criteria data processing powers, intelligent systems are obtained that can process large amounts of data much more quickly and with a high level of objectivity and rationality in comparison to what is referred to as natural human intelligence. AI systems are already being developed that process much larger volumes of data and information faster than humans. If such artificial intelligence systems and autonomous robots equipped with this technology were to escape human control due to certain errors, a new kind of serious threat to humans could arise.

In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:

What do you think?

What is your opinion on this subject?

Please respond,

I invite you all to discuss,

Thank you very much,

Warm regards,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

In a situation where in many service companies and many manufacturing companies, as part of the so-called cost optimisation and profitability improvement, a significant part, the majority of the employed workers or the entire workforce will be replaced by artificial intelligence technology, the tax revenue going to the state budget from income taxes of the previously employed workers and the amounts from para-taxes, contributions to the social security system and others will significantly decrease if the tax system is not applied modified and adapted to the fourth technological revolution currently taking place. In addition, a long-standing process of change in the demographic structure of society, known as ageing, is taking place in developed countries. This means a successive decrease in the number of people in many productive years against people who have already reached retirement age. This will further weaken the state's public finance system in the years to come. If, in the future, the state is to ensure convenient provision of public goods and services for the next generations of citizens, the social security system, the participatory pension system, etc. are to function effectively, the necessary changes, including in the area of fiscal policy, should already be introduced. However, the issue of shaping socio-economic policy, including fiscal policy, social policy, provision of public goods by the state to citizens, etc., may be a problem mainly in the short term (a few months) or medium term (up to a few years) instead of the long term (at least a few decades of time).

In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:

What is your opinion on this?

What is your opinion on this subject?

Please respond,

I invite you all to discuss,

Thank you very much,

Best regards,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

We, at the Design Innovation Centre of Mondragon University, are working to better understand the interaction between humans and robots through a user-focused questionnaire. Our Human-Robot Experience (HUROX) questionnaire will gauge human perception and acceptance of robots in an industrial setting. Your participation in completing the questionnaire will greatly help us validate our findings.

The estimated time to answer all questions is about 40 minutes.

Your cooperation and support in this research effort would be greatly appreciated. We believe that by working together, we can advance our understanding of human-robot interaction and create better, more intuitive technologies for the future. If you're willing, please share this message with your network of contacts to help us reach even more participants.

Thank you for your cooperation!

We are a group of researchers from the Federal University of Sergipe (Brazil), Universidad Nacional de San Juan (Argentina), Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (Argentina) and Queen’s University (Canada) and we are are conducting research to assess whether robots can be commanded to perform tasks through gestures in an easy and intuitive way and we would like to ask for your help.

The estimated time to answer all questions is just over 10 minutes.

It would also help us even more if you share this message with your entire network of contacts. To participate, it is not necessary to have any prior knowledge of robotics and your collaboration will assist us in the search for a simpler way for anyone to use robots in their daily lives.

Thanks for your cooperation!

How to understand the "collaboration mechanism" between human and machine in these HMC methods?

Thank you!

What kind of scientific research dominate in the field of Artificial intelligence?

Please, provide your suggestions for a question, problem or research thesis in the issues: Artificial intelligence.

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Will the development of artificial intelligence, e-learning, Internet of Things and other information technologies increase the scope of automation and standardization of didactic processes, which could result in the replacement of a teacher by robots?

Unfortunately, there is a danger that due to the development of artificial intelligence, e-learning, learning machines, the Internet of Things, etc. technology can replace the teacher in the future. However, this will not happen in the next few years, but this scenario can not be excluded in the perspective of several decades. In addition, the work of the teacher is a creative work, a social education, etc. Currently, it is assumed that artificial intelligence will not be able to fully replace a human teacher, because it is now assumed that you can not teach artistry machine, social sensitivity, emotional intelligence, empathy, etc.

Do you agree with me on the above matter?

In the context of the above issues, the following question is valid:

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Is one of the products of the integration of Information Technology Industry 4.0 will be the creation of fully autonomous robots capable of self-improvement?

Is the combination of artificial intelligence and technology learning machines, robotics, the Internet of Things and data processing in the cloud and Big Data databases automatically acquiring information from the Internet and possibly other advanced information technologies typical of the current technological revolution Industry 4.0 will allow to create fully autonomous robots capable of self-improvement?

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In which branches, industry, the development of robotics, work automation and the implementation of artificial intelligence into production processes, logistics, etc. is currently the most dynamic?

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What kind of scientific research dominate in the field of The development of automation and robotics?

Please, provide your suggestions for a question, problem or research thesis in the issues: The development of automation and robotics.

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Will intelligent robots replace human in all difficult, cumbersome jobs and professions as part of the progress of civilization?

Will robotization in the course of civilization progress replace man in all difficult, arduous jobs and professions?

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We are modeling an HRI scenario in virtual reality using Unity and the Oculus Rift. Our problem is, though, that Unity only allows objects to be either kinematic or physics. This means, either we have a nicely running inverse kinematic model of a 6-DOF industrial robot, but struggle with physical-virtual interaction with objects, or we have a physically correct behavior of the robotic parts, but lose the inverse kinematic model.

Does anyone of you also work with Unity as a platform for HRI VR and came across these issues, too? 

Thank you very much in advance,

Jonas

Dexterous, in-hand robotic manipulation is the process of perturbing a stably grasped object from arbitrary pose A to a desired pose B by appropriately controlling the robotic fingers.

What are in your opinion the most important practical, everyday life applications of such a dexterous robotic manipulation?

For example, in the case of a robot arm hand system both the arm and the hand contribute to the dexterity. I am particularly interested in applications that render hand dexterity absolutely necessary.

In other words, what tasks / applications require a dexterous hand because they cannot be efficiently executed with a simple arm-gripper system?

I conducted a questionnaire which included the Godspeed Questionnaire (https://www.bartneck.de/2008/03/11/the-godspeed-questionnaire-series/).

I have two different groups and want to compare their results. I know, that for these kinds of likert scales I should not use mean values but medians. However in the Godspeed Questionnaire there a four groupings and I want to compare the results of these groupings and not of every single likert-item. Otherwise I would use a Mann-Whitney U test.

What would be a sensible statistical method to use in this case?

Shear forces are the main source of discomfort for Exosuit users and unreliable force transmission from actuators to wearable components of an Exosuit.

So in the design of an Exosuit, shear forces should be minimized.

How shear force minimization will be achieved in the design?

Are there futurological estimates when mass autonomous humanoid robots will be manufactured in series?

When mass-produced autonomous humanoid robots will be produced in series, that is, futurological visions known from such science fiction novels and movies as "I. Robot", "AI Artificial Intelligence", "Ex Machina", "Chappie", "Bicentennial Man", "Star Wars", "Star Trek", etc.?

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Hello,

I'm currently a master student with the thesis subject 'Social robots in healthcare: implications for producers'. The goal is to research the different aspects a social robot producer has to take into account when producing such a social robot. This could go from decisions about the technical aspect (which software and how to get this software, which platform will the robot be built upon etc.) to how they do market research to find out what the preferences are of the customers they target. This will be done through interviews with these producers.

Which questions can I ask social robot developers about the implications they have to take into account? Your insights on which questions to ask and which factors to take into account would be very useful.

Many thanks in advance,

Thomas

Industrial robot manufacturers have in recent years developed collaborative robots and these gains more and more interest within the manufacturing industry. Collaborative robots ensure that humans and robots can work together without the robot being dangerous for the human.

However, how can we mesure the performnace of these system in industrie 4.0 ?

regarding communication mechanisms between human and robot ?

What is your vision on that?

Can someone explain to me the benefits from having a relationship with AI? And also the things we should worry about?

“AIs will colonize and transform the entire cosmos,” says Juergen Schmidhuber, a pioneering computer scientist based at the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Switzerland, “and they will make it intelligent.”

What do you think? do you think the AI will change everything in the life? do you believe that the AI will become a threat for human or not?

and if yes, how near is that day?

I am currently investigating means to assess human interaction interest on a mobile robotic platform before approaching said humans.

I already found several sources which mainly focus on movement trajectories and body poses.

Do you know of any other observable features which could be used for this?

Could you point me to relevant literature in this field?

Thanks in advance,

Martin

Can someone provide me with information on how to control a physical robot arm with V-Rep?

I am new to robotics and I want to link my V-Rep simulation to a real KUKA arm

There have been many emotion space models, be it the circumplex model or the PANA model or the Plutchik's wheel. But all of them are used to represent human emotions in an emotion space. The definitions for arousal and valence are easy to interpret as human beings as we have some understanding of pleasant/ unpleasant or intense/non intense stimuli. However, how can we define the same for a robot? What stimuli should be considered as Arousing and what should be Pleasant for a robot? I am interested in reading the responses from researchers in the field and having a discussion in this area. Any reference to relevant literature would also be highly appreciated.

In our university, we went to buy robot manipulator for teaching modeling and control, in addition we went to use the robot for research works about human-robot interaction, please share with us your experiences about this subject?

Research challenges related to human robot collaboration (HRC) include mainly (a) teaching the robot and avoidance of unintended consequences; (b) considering how both human and robot have mutual models of each other; (c) coping with user culture and fears . The last point “(c)” deal with the primary recommendations of the DARPA-NSF study on human robot interaction, which was the need for interdisciplinary research in human-robot interaction, including researchers from the fields of psychology and human factors.

If we want to keep using technologies we must abandoning Artificial intelligence. unless we found a way to control it which is unlikely to happen. Some rules must be adopted to band or control AI the issue here is do we have the right to make rules to band or control the AI in the name of law?

On the KUKA LWR robot, whenever we switch the controllers using FRI (external computer) from Position Control Mode to Cartesian Impedance Control Mode the end effector moves from its position slightly, gives a 'click' sound and then stops functioning showing errors on the KCP. This happens even without a tool attached. Currently we need one person to hold the robot while the switching is happening which is very inconvenient.

1. As soon as the KCP command for opening FRI is executed the robot end effector moves (either falls down or changes its position) and the KCP shows -

LR:FRI Monitor Mode

FRI successfully opened

LR: Cartesian Impedance

Control scheme: Cart.impedance control

LR:FRI cmd.cartPos not properly initialized

ERROR during friStart (result:2)

LR:FRI Interpolation error

2. If on the rare occasion that the FRI opens then upon loading the controller from external host (PC) the following happens -

FRI succesfully opened

LR:Cartesian Impedance

Control Scheme: Cart. Impedance Control

ERROR during friStart (result:2)

3. And if somehow the above works, then upon loading the Impedance Controller from external host (PC) the following happens in one second -

LF:FRI monitor mode

FRI successfully started

LR:FRI Bad Communication Quality!

I have already done All Position Zero and All Torque Zero calibration.

In some activities it is possible and robots are already produced, which replace people in specific repetitive activities.

However, will robots replace people in future in all activities and functions?

In my opinion, it is not possible for this type of futurological vision to be realized.

People are afraid of such a scenario of the future development of civilization.

The expression of these fears is the predominance of negative futurological visions known from fictional literature and films that such a development of civilization in which autonomous robots replace people in almost all activities, difficult work, production processes and achieve a high level of artificial intelligence generates serious threats to humanity.

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Special track: Advances and Challenges in Human-Computer Interaction in Digitalized Industry

https://interaccion2019.ehu.eus/?page_id=722&lang=en

Brief Description: We are witnessing the massive introduction of digital technologies in the industry, which leads to new production models that are grouped under the concepts of Connected Industry and Industry 4.0. It is a challenge to put in context the current state of this paradigm in the industrial sphere (how a conventional industry should be transformed), academic (what changes in the teaching plans are necessary) and social (what is the future of work and the new competences of people). It should be noted that some of the dimensions on which the connected industry is based clearly show the presence of methods and technologies that are common in the human-computer interaction discipline. Thus, for example, highlights the importance of Collaborative Robotics (what degree of interaction is allowed between the person and the robot), Augmented/Virtual Reality (how to design machine maintenance procedures using glasses/helmet and mixed reality applications), the Big Data (how to transform data volumes into quality data and that provide information in information visualization systems), Industrial Internet of Things (how effective can be the synergy between IIoT and people-centered design), 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing (before edible products which is the person’s emotional response), for example. In general, it is convenient to analyze how the deployment of these dimensions affects the traditional human-machine system models, interaction with new devices, human capabilities and limitations in the management of complex systems, new trends in information visualization.

Topics: We invite the submission of contributions. Examples topics in the track may include, but are not limited to: – Conceptual models of HCI for Industry 4.0 – Mixed reality developments in productive environments – Human-robot Interactive systems – Interface design – Human factors and connected enterprise – Teaching in HCI and connected enterprise

Objectives: – Announce the importance of HCI in the connected industry – Show current status of theoretical-experimental research – Announce good teaching practices – Analyze trends

Expected audience and outcomes: This special session is proposed as a meeting point to establish a framework for future work between HCI and Industry 4.0 professionals. A wide audience is invited to contribute their knowledge and experience in this special session, such as academics, researchers, industry experts, professionals working in this field of knowledge.

Important Dates: Submission Deadline: until April 15, 2019 Author Notification: April 30, 2019 Camera-ready papers due: May 10, 2019

Track Committee: Josep M. Blanco, Interactius, Spain Alejandro Chacón. U. ESPE, Quito, Ecuador Horacio René Del Giorgio. U. Nacional de la Matanza, Buenos Aires, Argentina Manuel Domínguez, U. de León, Spain Inmaculada Fajardo, U. de Valencia, Spain Ganix Lasa, Mondragon Unibertsitatea, Spain Maitane Mazmela, Mondragon Unibertsitatea, Spain Alicia Mon. U. Nacional de la Matanza, Buenos Aires, Argentina Pere Ponsa. U. Politècnica Catalunya Barcelona Tech, Spain Francisco Jesús Rodríguez-Sedano, U. de León, Spain. Sebastián Tornil. U. Politècnica Catalunya Barcelona Tech, Spain Ramon Vilanova. U. Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

I am looking for the link lengths and joint diameters of DLR hand but not able to find any article specifically mentioning them. If anyone has any information please can you refer me the article.

Hi,

I am PhD student working on conversational Social robotics. Is there any way to measure the relevancy of responses with regard to user utterance? are there any ways to measure relevancy automatically (through AI)? if not which manual techniques are available in literature nowadays?

I would highly appreciate.

with kind regards,

Tahir

So far I found these papers. I think the last two are not so well reputed Journals.

Year: 2013

Journel/conference: International Journal of Social Robotics

Year: 20 July 2017

Journal/conference: Multimodal Technologies and Interaction — Open Access Journal

file:///C:/Users/20174715/Downloads/mti-01-00014-v2.pdf

Year: 7 February 2017

Journal/Conference: International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences

I would highly appreciate your help

Hi everyone,

I am trying to implement the ESFM which was introduced in paper "An Integrated Pedestrian Behavior Model Based on Extended Decision Field Theory and Social Force Model". 

Assume the direction agent is facing would be the same direction as agent current acceleration(the total force he receives) is. When there is an obstacle between the agent and his destination, the agent firstly will see the obstacle and heading back. But after he looked back he could not see the obstacle again so will turn around immediately. This will be an infinite loop and agent will stuck in one place turning around until the environment changes.

So is there a better definition of agent heading?

Thanks in advance,

Yufeng 

What do you think of having structures that can possibly change shapes using compliant mechanisms in a smart way to adapt the plant (e.g. robots, manipulators, airplanes, cars) to different known and unknown environments? Any satisfactory used method so far or concepts? any point of view?

Possibly quite a naive question, but the answer doesn't appear easy to find when wondering why only some children are terrified of robots and others are not. It seems more than just individual difference, with significant numbers of kids responding with terror to robots (at least 1/10, sometimes higher).

Does anyone have any resources on children who are terrified of any type of robot (humanoid or not, e.g., NAO or Roomba)? Or a suggestion for any measures which might capture this? 

I'm looking for two things basically:

1) Syllabi for sampling or survey data analysis courses you've taken or tought. Good and bad examples both wanted.

2) If you've take a course on this, we'd love your frank thoughts (again positive or negative) even if you can't share the syllabus. Direct message is fine if you don't feel comfortable commenting "out loud."

Colleague Stas Kolenikov and I are up to something.

Just so you don't think I'm doing my own work, this isn't for a class I need to prepare. :)

Thanks in advance! :) We can continue the conversation here. 

Dear researchers,

I am new to R and statistic analysis, and I deeply value all your opinions!

My last experiment was a within-subject experiment, with in total 24 participants. The independent variable is robot`s behaviours (28 candidates) and the independent variable is emotion category (4 categories, relaxed, happy, sad and angry). Part of the summarised data is showed in the attached figure Snip20160824_2.png, where y axis is the behaviour candidate and x axis is the sum of picks regarding 4 categories.

My current idea is to analyse  each emotion category separately. Thus I now have data sets such as figure Snip20160824_3.png. For example for the category of relaxed, the dependent variable then turns into a binary one. For each behaviour candidate, the dv is 1 if it is picked as relaxed and 0 if it isn`t. For each behaviour candidate, the number of picks across the 24 participants is summed. This procedure is the same for all the 4 emotion categories.

Here is my question: which method shall I use to analyse whether there are some behaviour candidates that picked significantly more than others regarding each category, respectively? (for instance in figure Snip20160824_3.png, I would like to see whether c1 is picked significantly more than others, regarding the relaxed category).

Sorry for my badly organised English. Thank you!

I'm looking for a good open-source gesture recognizer (in particular, pointing gesture) that would work on Linux. Either using skeleton tracking (OpenNI) or other RGB-D methods.

While the theory is rather simple (typically, you want to train a hidden Markov model), I'm looking for an robust implementation + trained model.

Human–robot interaction is the study of interactions between humans and robots. It is often referred as HRI by researchers. Human–robot interaction is a multidisciplinary field with contributions from human–computer interaction, artificial intelligence, robotics, natural language understanding, design, and social sciences.

I would like to obtain a realistic model for the human hand while it is in interaction with a surgery tool and soft or hard tissues. I would like to know more about the methods that I can use for getting the appropriate DOF for hand and the way to get the data to do so.

I saw in the literature that using on/off valves it is possible to control artificial air muscles but there are many disadvantages as heating of the muscle and difficult control. It is very difficult to realize a precise control. Could you please suggest suitable valves and control principles for resolve the disadvantages mentioned above?

Hi,

One of the problem with force control is that there may be vibrations when interacting with stiff environment. A passivity observer/controller can be used, for example, to add damping and thus eliminate vibrations when the algorithm detects passivity violations. In some applications, for example in some human-robot interactions scheme, such an algorithm doesn't work. We then developed a control algorithm to detect vibrations and to decrease the control gains when vibrations were detected (thus eliminating the vibrations).

The problem we had with the publication of this paper is that the reviewers required stability proofs. The algorithm works very well in practice and was tested on several robots. However, theoretical stability of such algorithms is hard to prove (if even possible). On the other hand, many control algorithms are published without theoretical stability proofs (for example algorithms based on neural networks, artificial intelligence in general, fuzzy logic, etc.).

I would like to have your advices on how to tackle this problem to get the paper published.

Thank you very much !

Alex

I want help in quadcopter programming

How can I  programming the 4 motors by using arduino to control the sped and the direction 

and when it show up I want just slow dawn the speed with out effect the direction 

*note my motors are DC not stepper 

thanks a lot

I want to know the Jacobian Matrix equation when the external force is not on the end-effector of robot, e.g, on the elbow or any other robot arm's point. 

Thank you for your help!

Kind regards,

P.Liang

And furthermore, to what degree would this induction be stable and subject to noise? and in particular, which sources of noises? Any pointer to useful sources is most appreciated.

We recently bought an iCub2 with enhanced communication abilities (see Nina below). We are currently working on visual attention and try to characterize the perception of the robot's gaze direction by human observers. We got surprised! The morphology of robotic eyes with no deformation of the eyelids and palpebral commissure strongly biases the estimation of eyes direction as soon as the gaze is averted.

Are you aware of any study (similar to what SAMER AL MOUBAYED and KTH colleagues have done with Furhat) on robots?

Thank you in advance for your help!

Some work has already taken place with humanoid development.

The neurons are responsible for creating drastic changes in our physical reactions. If those are converted to energy by any reactor or related things, why can't we build a robotic suit for humans. This maybe very useful for Army, Navy, etc.