5 accepted papers
Automation in flexible environments must account for ambiguities and uncertainties. For example, the number of available objects may vary between different workspaces. To address this, we introduce flexible robot tasks with varieties that incorporate these ambiguities. This approach allows the progr
Human-robot collaboration in shared workspaces enables companies to improve efficiency and the quality of work for human workers. A novel research direction in this field is that human and robot dynamically negotiate which actions to perform. This requires the robot to permanently monitor the curren…
We propose a highly flexible approach to human-robot cooperation, where a robot dynamically selects operations contributing to a shared goal from a given task model. Therefore, knowledge on the task progress is extracted from a world model constructed from eye-in-hand camera images. Data generated f…
Flexible human-robot cooperation can be coordinated by dynamic task allocation, where team members observe task progress and repeatedly decide to execute outstanding operations from a commonly known task model. Such task-level coordination strategies do not cover cases, where a high level of abstrac…
One long term goal of robotic research is the development of robot systems, which have approximately the same cognitive, communicational, and manipulative abilities like humans and which can be operated by non-experts. The usage by non-experts sets additional requirements to the abilities of a robot…