Human Robot Interaction in the Absence of Visual and Aural Feedback: Exploring the Haptic Sense

Penders, Jacques; Ghosh, Alokananda

doi:10.1016/j.procs.2015.12.197

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“…Hu et al [9] proposed a robotic nursing assistant to help nurses in the hospital, whereas Penders et al [10] developed a swarm of robots to assist firefighters. Robots could also help blind people to safely move around different environments [11].…”

Section: Social Robots and Human-robot Interactionmentioning

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Wearable Sensors for Human–Robot Walking Together

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Thanks to recent technological improvements that enable novel applications beyond the industrial context, there is growing interest in the use of robots in everyday life situations. To improve the acceptability of personal service robots, they should seamlessly interact with the users, understand their social signals and cues and respond appropriately. In this context, a few proposals were presented to make robots and humans navigate together naturally without explicit user control, but no final solution has been achieved yet. To make an advance toward this end, this paper proposes the use of wearable Inertial Measurement Units to improve the interaction between human and robot while walking together without physical links and with no restriction on the relative position between the human and the robot. We built a prototype system, experimented with 19 human participants in two different tasks, to provide real-time evaluation of gait parameters for a mobile robot moving together with a human, and studied the feasibility and the perceived usability by the participants. The results show the feasibility of the system, which obtained positive feedback from the users, giving valuable information for the development of a natural interaction system where the robot perceives human movements by means of wearable sensors.

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“…The work reported in here builds on the Reins project [2], which developed and trialled tactile and haptic human robot interaction for application in low visibility and poor audibility conditions, as is typical for firefighting. The project applied a crutch-like stick to link the human and the Pioneer-3AT 4wheel robot, refer to Fig.…”

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“…However, not much attention has been given to the human robot interaction in such circumstances that is in the absence of visual (because of the smoke) and aural feedback (because of the noise). The authors of [2] reported the application of a physical handle -a stick modelled as a crutch -to link the robot to the human. They distinguished between navigation and locomotion guidance: navigation involves wayfinding while locomotion guidance denotes traversing from the current location to the nearest waypoint [2]; locomotion guidance by a robot has been investigated and reported in [3].…”

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“…The authors of [2] reported the application of a physical handle -a stick modelled as a crutch -to link the robot to the human. They distinguished between navigation and locomotion guidance: navigation involves wayfinding while locomotion guidance denotes traversing from the current location to the nearest waypoint [2]; locomotion guidance by a robot has been investigated and reported in [3]. Robots are helpful for navigation as the localisation problems are technically solved [4].…”

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“…Nevertheless, the main task for the human-robot interface designer is to provide cues to enable the human being to build the spatial representation. Inspiring for the design used in this project have been observations concerning guide dogs [2]; in line with guide dog practices, we will call the human being handling the stick the 'handler'.…”

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Soranzo

2019

2019 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)

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This paper investigates the efficacy of a tactile and haptic human robot interface developed and trialled to aid navigation in poor visibility and audibility conditions, which occur, for example, in e.g. search and rescue. The new developed interface generates haptic directional information that will support human navigation when other senses are not or only partially accessible. The central question of this paper was whether humans are able to interpret haptic signals as denoting different spatial directions. The effectiveness of the haptic signals was measured in a novel experimental set up. Participants were given a stick (replicating the robot interface) and asked to reproduce the specific spatial information denoted by each of the haptic signals. The task performance was examined quantitatively and results show that the haptic signals can denote distinguishable spatial directions, supporting the hypothesis that tactile and haptic information can be effectively used to aid human navigation. Implications for robotics application of the newly developed interface are discussed.

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Social robots and the futures of affective touch

Paterson

2023

The Senses and Society

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Human Robot Interaction in the Absence of Visual and Aural Feedback: Exploring the Haptic Sense

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