The power of prediction: Robots that read intentions

Author

Bicho, E. ; Erlhagen, W. ; Sousa, E. ; Louro, L. ; Hipolito, N. ; Silva, E.C. ; Silva, R. ; Ferreira, F. ; Machado, T. ; Hulstijn, M. ; Maas, Y. ; de Bruijn, E. ; Cuijpers, R.H. ; Newman-Norlund, R. ; van Schie, H. ; Meulenbroek, R.G.J. ; Bekkering, H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Ind. Electron., Univ. of Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal

fYear

2012

fDate

7-12 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

5458

Lastpage

5459

Abstract

Humans are experts in cooperating in a smooth and proactive manner. Action and intention understanding are critical components of efficient joint action. In the context of the EU Integrated Project JAST [16] we have developed an anthropomorphic robot endowed with these cognitive capacities. This project and respective robot (ARoS) is the focus of the video. More specifically, the results illustrate crucial cognitive capacities for efficient and successful human-robot collaboration such as goal inference, error detection and anticipatory action selection. Results were considered one of the ICT “success stories”[22].

Keywords

anthropology; cognition; cooperative systems; human-robot interaction; EU Integrated Project JAST; action understanding; anthropomorphic robot; cognitive capacity; cooperative task performance; human-robot collaboration; intention understanding; Collaboration; Educational institutions; Humans; Joints; Neuroscience; Robot kinematics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on

Conference_Location

Vilamoura

ISSN

2153-0858

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1737-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IROS.2012.6386297

Filename

6386297