Aaron Bestick

2 accepted papers

2018

Learning Human Ergonomic Preferences for Handovers

Aaron Bestick, Ravi Pandya, Ruzena Bajcsy, Anca D. Dragan

ICRA 2018poster

Our goal is for people to be physically comfortable when taking objects from robots. This puts a burden on the robot to hand over the object in such a way that a person can easily reach it, without needing to strain or twist their arm - a way that is conducive to ergonomic human grasping configurati…

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2016

Human intent forecasting using intrinsic kinematic constraints

Ninghang Hu, Aaron Bestick, Gwenn Englebienne, Ruzena Bajscy, Ben Kröse

IROS 2016poster

The performance of human-robot collaboration tasks can be improved by incorporating predictions of the human collaborator's movement intentions. These predictions allow a collaborative robot to both provide appropriate assistance and plan its own motion so it does not interfere with the human. In th…

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