{"title":"Cognitive robotics - active perception of the self and others","authors":"R. Saegusa, L. Natale, G. Metta, G. Sandini","doi":"10.1109/HSI.2011.5937403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HSI.2011.5937403","url":null,"abstract":"The paper describes constructive approach of active perception for anthropomorphic robots. The key idea is that a robot tries to identify a human's action as an own action based on the observation of action effects for objects. In the proposed framework, the active perception are decomposed into the three phases; (1) a robot voluntarily generates actions to discover the own body and other objects. Here the object is defined as what the robot can interact with. (2) the robot characterizes its own action with its effect for objects. (3) the robot identifies the human action as the own action. The mirrored perception of the own action and the human's action allows the robot to share motor intelligence with humans. The approach was evaluated in experiments with a humanoid robot equipped with multi sensory modalities such as vision, tactile, and proprioceptive sensing.","PeriodicalId":384027,"journal":{"name":"2011 4th International Conference on Human System Interactions, HSI 2011","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122244636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alexander Mertens, Sinem Kuz, Antje Heinicke, M. Mayer, Bernhard Kausch, C. Schlick
{"title":"User focused design of human-robot interaction for people suffering from unusual ailments","authors":"Alexander Mertens, Sinem Kuz, Antje Heinicke, M. Mayer, Bernhard Kausch, C. Schlick","doi":"10.1109/HSI.2011.5937341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HSI.2011.5937341","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the results of two years of empirical research with regard to the design of interfaces in human-robot interaction for elderly and disabled persons. Focus is on establishing telemedical services and service robots for homely aftercare and rehabilitation. Within several user studies and clinical trials the aspects of information input with the help of swabbing movements for people suffering from hand tremor and design recommendations for tactile stimuli in the use of touch screens were investigated. Additionally the comparison of different icon categories for archetypical telemedical scenarios and the implementation of intuitive acoustic feedback mechanisms were accomplished in empirical user studies, considering the requirements of the prospective user.","PeriodicalId":384027,"journal":{"name":"2011 4th International Conference on Human System Interactions, HSI 2011","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115253093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Balance control of humanoid robot in object lifting task with tactile sensing system","authors":"K. Suwanratchatamanee, M. Matsumoto, S. Hashimoto","doi":"10.1109/HSI.2011.5937405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HSI.2011.5937405","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses an effective framework of humanoid robot during an object lifting task. The key component is a control technique for balancing in the external forces. Our aim is to simplify the balance control during manipulation tasks by utilizing a real time tactile feedback instead of the complex ZMP calculations. We also present a tactile sensing system and an active tactile sensing technique to enable the humanoid robot to grasp an object and balance autonomously. In order to achieve a balancing task efficiently, the minimal sensing elements are employed with a specialized layout to the soles of each foot to detect the reaction force from the ground. The system effectiveness was confirmed by the experiments on humanoid platform to lift up the objects approximately in half and quarter of their body weight with single left arm. Throughout experiments, information about ground floor or robot orientation is not required in advance.","PeriodicalId":384027,"journal":{"name":"2011 4th International Conference on Human System Interactions, HSI 2011","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114499726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Anzalone, E. Menegatti, E. Pagello, Y. Yoshikawa, H. Ishiguro, A. Chella
{"title":"Audio-video people recognition system for an intelligent environment","authors":"S. Anzalone, E. Menegatti, E. Pagello, Y. Yoshikawa, H. Ishiguro, A. Chella","doi":"10.1109/HSI.2011.5937372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HSI.2011.5937372","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper an audio-video system for intelligent environments with the capability to recognize people is presented. Users are tracked inside the environment and their positions and activities can be logged. Users identities are assessed through a multimodal approach by detecting and recognizing voices and faces through the different cameras and microphones installed in the environment. This approach has been chosen in order to create a flexible and cheap but reliable system, implemented using consumer electronics. Voice features are extracted by a short time cepstrum analysis, and face features are extracted using the eigenfaces technique. The recognition task is solved using the same Support Vector Machine for both voice and face features. The system learns the features of each person using SVM in a set-up phase, in which the two modalities are also bound together through a cross-anchoring learning rule based on the mutual exclusivity selection principle. In the running phase the system is able to recognize the identity of the person either using voice features, or face features or both. The system is scalable in the number of cameras and microphones thanks to NMM, a middleware software which manages the processing of the single sensors and the communications among the several software nodes.","PeriodicalId":384027,"journal":{"name":"2011 4th International Conference on Human System Interactions, HSI 2011","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129757489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluating uncertainty resiliency of Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Controllers for parallel delta robot","authors":"O. Linda, M. Manic","doi":"10.1109/HSI.2011.5937349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HSI.2011.5937349","url":null,"abstract":"As a consequence of recent theoretical advancements in Type-2 (T2) fuzzy logic, applications of T2 Fuzzy Logic Controllers (FLCs) are becoming increasingly popular in various engineering areas. Nevertheless, the qualitative comparison of Type-1 (T1) and T2 FLCs and the assessment of the potential of T2 fuzzy logic can still be considered open questions. Despite this fact, researchers commonly claim superiority of T2 FLC in uncertain conditions based on a very limited exploration of the design parameter space. This manuscript provides a systematic analysis of the uncertainty resiliency of T2 FLC used for position control of parallel delta robot. In order to allow for objective comparison among different T1 and T2 FLCs, the controllers were constructed using a partially-dependent approach. Here, the T2 FLC is created based on an initially optimized T1 FLC. In this, manner the constrained design space allows for its full systematic exploration and analysis. The performance of each controller was evaluated on the real parallel delta robot under various levels of dynamic uncertainty. The experimental results support the theoretical claims about the superiority of T2 FLC. However, it was also demonstrated that there is a clear upper bound on the amount of “type-2 fuzziness” in the controller design, which can result in performance improvement. Exceeding such upper bound leads to performance deterioration.","PeriodicalId":384027,"journal":{"name":"2011 4th International Conference on Human System Interactions, HSI 2011","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132947280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A method for estimation of operational torque considering of asymmetric property on bilateral control","authors":"M. Kawamoto, K. Ohnishi","doi":"10.1109/HSI.2011.5937368","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HSI.2011.5937368","url":null,"abstract":"Bilateral control system is widely researched as a technique for robotic telesurgry, since reaction force from objects is important information for precise surgical operation. Reaction force/torque observer (RFOB/RTOB) realizes sensorless estimation of external force and it has been efficiently utilized for bilateral control. However, precise estimation of operational force is required for accurate estimation of reaction force. Otherwise the operability of the robot deteriorates. In addition, operational force, such as friction force, changes within the range of motion when the structure of the robot is asymmetric. This paper proposes a method for estimation of operational torque considering of the asymmetric property. The validity of the proposed method is confirmed by experimental results.","PeriodicalId":384027,"journal":{"name":"2011 4th International Conference on Human System Interactions, HSI 2011","volume":"178 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133159844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
O. Mirabella, A. Raucea, Fausto Fisichella, Luigi Gentile
{"title":"A motion capture system for sport training and rehabilitation","authors":"O. Mirabella, A. Raucea, Fausto Fisichella, Luigi Gentile","doi":"10.1109/HSI.2011.5937342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HSI.2011.5937342","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a motion capture system which provides both an accurate measurement of some motion parameters of a human arm and a graphical reconstruction of the movement on a synthetic model. The hardware uses several MEMS inertial sensors whose data are processed using mathematical tools based on quaternions. Measurements on a prototype have proven the system to be very accurate, since through the sensors placed on the joints of the arms it was possible to extract a video motion very faithful to the real.","PeriodicalId":384027,"journal":{"name":"2011 4th International Conference on Human System Interactions, HSI 2011","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127595253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emergent: A knowledge discovery tool for understanding emerging industry structure","authors":"Erik Noyes, L. Deligiannidis","doi":"10.1109/HSI.2011.5937383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HSI.2011.5937383","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a visual analytics tool to understand the emergence and structure of the nanotechnology industry. According to the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the global nanotechnology industry is expected to grow to $1 trillion in 2010 and drive dramatic innovation and wealth creation in industries as diverse as energy, computing and biotechnology. Nanotech entrepreneurs, analysts and investors alike need tools to understand the emerging structure of the industry because firm competitive positions in the industry impact ventures' survival, growth and profitability. Particularly, nanotech ventures compete from different initial “strategic footprints” in the industry which ease or complicate entry into new growth businesses. In fact, the emergence of the nanotechnology industry is the story of interweaving with—and penetration into—different adjoining industries. Exploiting the world's largest database on consumer-focused nanotechnology products, this paper demonstrates a visual analytics tool, Emergent, that can show the emerging structure of the industry and ventures' varying strategic footprints within this forming multi-industry terrain. The tool is interactive, scalable, and adaptable to relational data from other industries. Business applications of Emergent include industry analysis, strategic planning and entrepreneurial opportunity identification.","PeriodicalId":384027,"journal":{"name":"2011 4th International Conference on Human System Interactions, HSI 2011","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116797775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Thao Tran Phuong, R. Furusawa, C. Mitsantisuk, K. Ohishi
{"title":"Force sensing considering periodic disturbance suppression based on high order disturbance observer and Kalman-filter","authors":"Thao Tran Phuong, R. Furusawa, C. Mitsantisuk, K. Ohishi","doi":"10.1109/HSI.2011.5937388","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HSI.2011.5937388","url":null,"abstract":"Disturbance rejection has been one of foremost issues in control engineering for the past several decades. Disturbance observer is an effective technique to diminish the adverse effects of disturbances. However, in practical applications, there are cases in which the estimated disturbance is affected by vibration phenomenon or additional oscillatory disturbance which is not addressed by the conventional disturbance observer. This paper proposes a high order disturbance observer for force sensing operation and suppression of periodic disturbance in order to achieve an efficient force control. To be practical, the noisy problem of the measurement is taken into account. A Kalman-filter is used in combination with the high order disturbance observer to reduce the noise effect. The feasibility of the proposed method is demonstrated by numerical simulation results.","PeriodicalId":384027,"journal":{"name":"2011 4th International Conference on Human System Interactions, HSI 2011","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131778496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Can computers be more intelligent than humans?","authors":"B. Wilamowski","doi":"10.1109/HSI.2011.5937337","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HSI.2011.5937337","url":null,"abstract":"Humans are not perfect and they make mistakes. For example, humans without computer aided tools would not be able to design VLSI chips larger than 100 transistors. Computers are assisting humans in many aspects of their life. For many years already computers were used for number crunching, office related jobs, etc. More recently computers are used for making intelligent decisions. The methods of computational intelligence are relatively successful, but these methods have to be used with great care. In this presentation advantages and disadvantages of fuzzy and neural networks are presented. It turns out that often popular training algorithms are not capable of tuning neural networks to proper accuracy without losing generalization abilities. Also, abilities of neural networks strongly depend on the used architecture, and surprisingly the most popular architectures usually are least powerful.","PeriodicalId":384027,"journal":{"name":"2011 4th International Conference on Human System Interactions, HSI 2011","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130959443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}