Human-robot coordination

Abstract

In some situations (e.g. transportation or cleaning tasks in a factory), humans, human-driven cars and autonomous robots can circulate on the same path and have to avoid each other. This is possible only if either behavior are foreseeable, using some implicit (highway code) or explicit (e.g. trafficator to indicate that one is about to turn) common rules. As human driving behavior is easily embedded into linguistic statements such as "if condition then decision", fuzzy logic is a natural way to build "intelligent" robot behavior. The paper is an approach to build a human-like navigation system for autonomous robots.