CMAssist is a new effort in our lab, the CORAL research group, to study the research issues surrounding human-robot interaction in unmodified indoor home and office environments. Our focus is on methods for interaction between the human and the robot that are similar to natural human-human interactions. In 2006, we placed 2nd out of 11 teams in the first ever RoboCup@Home international human ro...

Assistive robot systems require a robot to interact closely with people and to perform joint human-robot tasks. Interaction with humans comes with additional challenges to those in other real-world scenarios. Robot plans must be especially flexible and take into account human abilities and preferences. For providing this level of flexibility, we propose a framework for transformational reactive...

Human-robot interaction is a recently emerged area of research that is working to understand how to build robots that are better at successfully navigating social interactions with people. Recent work has shown that people respond differently to robots than to animated characters, that the physical embodiment of a robot is important in an interaction, and that social behavior on the part of a r...