Enabling garment-agnostic laundry tasks for a Robot Household Companion

Estevez, David; Victores, Juan G.; Fernandez-Fernandez, Raul; Balaguer, Carlos

doi:10.1016/j.robot.2019.103330

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“…In contrast to this vision of home robotic companions, research has also shown that not all people accept this role for robots (Deutsch et al, 2019) and that preferred roles may be those of a butler or an assistant rather than that of a friend (Dautenhahn et al, 2005). An additional major application area of robots in the home is domestic chores (Cakmak & Takayama, 2013), such as floor cleaning Prassler et al, 2000), organizing (Pantofaru et al, 2012), laundry (Estevez et al, 2020), and kitchen assistance (Pham et al, 2017).…”

Section: Robots In the Homementioning

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Human–robot interaction challenges in the workplace.

Hoffman,

Kshirsagar,

Law

2022

The Psychology of Technology: Social Science Research in the Age of Big Data.

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I n this chapter, we discuss challenges for designing robots that interact with people in the workplace. We do so from the perspective of the research field called human-robot interaction (HRI), which studies the engineering methods, design aspects, social issues, and psychological outcomes arising from interacting with robots. The "workplace" in this chapter is defined broadly and can include any of a number of contexts in which robots could work alongside humans, such as factories, supermarkets, offices, care facilities, and construction sites. We do, however, exclude some specialized work environments, which already have humans interacting closely with robots, specifically military, space exploration, and surgery contexts. These settings have been covered at length in the literature. Instead, we discuss workplace settings in which robots are currently rare, but which are considered by the research community as likely future contexts for HRI.

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Section: Robots In the Homementioning

confidence: 99%

Human–robot interaction challenges in the workplace.

Hoffman,

Kshirsagar,

Law

2022

The Psychology of Technology: Social Science Research in the Age of Big Data.

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“…Mobile manipulators for indoor human environments have the potential to serve as versatile devices that perform a variety of useful tasks. Examples from the literature include assisting people with disabilities [1]- [5], delivering medicine [5]- [7], cleaning [8]- [10], organizing [11]- [13], folding laundry [14]- [16], and entertaining [17], [18]. To date, mobile manipulators have primarily been used in robotics research labs.…”

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The Design of Stretch: A Compact, Lightweight Mobile Manipulator for Indoor Human Environments

Kemp¹,

Edsinger²,

Clever³

et al. 2021

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Mobile manipulators for indoor human environments can serve as versatile devices that perform a variety of tasks, yet adoption of this technology has been limited. Reducing size, weight, and cost could facilitate adoption, but risks restricting capabilities. We present a novel design that reduces size, weight, and cost, while still performing a variety of tasks. The core design consists of a two-wheeled differentialdrive mobile base, a lift, and a telescoping arm configured to achieve Cartesian motion at the end of the arm. Design extensions include a 1 degree-of-freedom (DOF) wrist to stow a tool, a 2-DOF dexterous wrist to pitch and roll a tool, and a compliant gripper. We justify our design with mathematical models of static stability that relate the robot's size and weight to its workspace, payload, and applied forces. We also provide empirical support by teleoperating and autonomously controlling a commercial robot based on our design (the Stretch RE1 from Hello Robot Inc.) to perform tasks in real homes.

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Garment Type Agnostic Robotic Unfolding of Garments from Random Configuration

Triantafyllou

Aspragathos

2022

Advances in Service and Industrial Robotics

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Enabling garment-agnostic laundry tasks for a Robot Household Companion

Cited by 10 publications

References 96 publications

Human–robot interaction challenges in the workplace.

Human–robot interaction challenges in the workplace.

The Design of Stretch: A Compact, Lightweight Mobile Manipulator for Indoor Human Environments

Garment Type Agnostic Robotic Unfolding of Garments from Random Configuration

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