Journal
AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS
Volume 43, Issue 6, Pages 1291-1307Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10514-018-9706-9
Keywords
Multimodal human-robot interaction; Attentional supervision; Learning from demonstration; Intuitive kinesthetic teaching
Funding
- Technical University of Munich, International Graduate School of Science and Engineering
- Helmholtz Association
- RoMoLo project under EU [MISE F/050277/01-02-X32]
- MARsHaL project
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We present a framework that allows a robot manipulator to learn how to execute structured tasks from human demonstrations. The proposed system combines physical human-robot interaction with attentional supervision in order to support kinesthetic teaching, incremental learning, and cooperative execution of hierarchically structured tasks. In the proposed framework, the human demonstration is automatically segmented into basic movements, which are related to a task structure by an attentional system that supervises the overall interaction. The attentional system permits to track the human demonstration at different levels of abstraction and supports implicit non-verbal communication both during the teaching and the execution phase. Attention manipulation mechanisms (e.g. object and verbal cueing) can be exploited by the teacher to facilitate the learning process. On the other hand, the attentional system permits flexible and cooperative task execution. The paper describes the overall system architecture and details how cooperative tasks are learned and executed. The proposed approach is evaluated in a human-robot co-working scenario, showing that the robot is effectively able to rapidly learn and flexibly execute structured tasks.
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