Human-Robot Cooperation with Physical Interaction for Ballroom Dance

Design Concepts for Physical Human-Robot Cooperation

Robots capable of providing physical assistance to a human partner face a wide area of application scenarios ranging from manufacturing assistance, physical rehabilitation to mobility aids for the elderly. Yet, the physical nature of the coupling present in cooperative manipulation tasks and the uncertain contribution of the human partner make physical robotic assistance a challenging topic of ...

Physical Human – Robot Interaction

C lose physical interaction between robots and humans is a particularly challenging aspect of robot development. For successful interaction and cooperation, the robot must have the ability to adapt its behavior to the human counterpart. Based on our earlier work, we present and evaluate a computationally efficient machine learning algorithm that is well suited for such close-contact interaction...

Collaborative manufacturing with physical human–robot interaction

Although the concept of industrial cobots dates back to 1999, most present day hybrid human-machine assembly systems are merely weight compensators. Here, we present results on the development of a collaborative human-robot manufacturing cell for homokinetic joint assembly. The robot alternates active and passive behaviours during assembly, to lighten the burden on the operator in the first cas...

Learning Cooperation from Human-Robot Interaction

We present an approach to human-robot interaction that facilitates the robot's interaction with humans, permitting the robots to beneet from the humans and learn about cooperation. The approach is based on an abstract behavior representation that allows humans to freely interact with the robots without the use of a predeened vocabulary of words, gestures or signs, and also enables the robots to...

Human-Robot Cooperation Based on Interaction Learning