2011 RO-MANPub Date : 2011-08-30DOI: 10.1109/ROMAN.2011.6005268
Hee-Tae Jung, Jennifer Baird, Yu-Kyong Choe, R. Grupen
{"title":"Upper extremity physical therapy for stroke patients using a general purpose robot","authors":"Hee-Tae Jung, Jennifer Baird, Yu-Kyong Choe, R. Grupen","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.2011.6005268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2011.6005268","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, the potential of robot-mediated upper extremity therapy has been widely acknowledged in stroke rehabilitation. The primary focus of rehabilitation robotics has been on building exoskeleton robots as well as devising control strategies that leverage robotic forces to adaptively assist and resist the movements of patients' impaired arms during repetitive reach-touch exercises. In our single subject case study, a robot presents exercise target positions that are successively more difficult to the patient. This serves to adaptively challenge the patient, while inducing voluntary reach-touch movements. Through data collected during 12 weeks of therapy with a single subject, we demonstrate that a general purpose robot can induce desired therapeutic exercise movements from a patient. In addition, we have observed that the challenge level can be adapted as the patient improves his motor function, which leads to observable improvements in the motor function of the patient.","PeriodicalId":408015,"journal":{"name":"2011 RO-MAN","volume":"137 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132591860","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}
2011 RO-MANPub Date : 2011-08-30DOI: 10.1109/ROMAN.2011.6005288
Hiroki Sato, Y. Kuniyoshi
{"title":"Evaluation of action-similarity awareness effect in rhythm ensemble co-creation","authors":"Hiroki Sato, Y. Kuniyoshi","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.2011.6005288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2011.6005288","url":null,"abstract":"There are many robots which have communication skills with human but most of their actions and responses are preprogrammed and few researches inspect psychological aspects of behavior in human-robot co-creation. In this paper, we focus on action-similarity awareness as a key for building up co-creative relationship with humans. Here, action-similarity awareness means that one recognizes affinity to one's own actions derived from other's actions. As a simple task involving action-similarity awareness, we focused on rhythm ensemble. The ensemble is a type of drumming session in which even people who have little musical experience easily take part. In this research we expect to realize the awareness in the rhythm ensemble session by employing the other's past action and mixing it to metrical structure, a basic beat structure in music. To make sure of this idea in real session, we developed a robot system which can actually play a drumming session with humans and control action-similarity awareness. We conducted a subjective experiment and analyzed questionnaire and interaction record. From the questionnaire results, it was confirmed that the sense of prediction increases with action contributing rate and that it is effective to imitate humans actions and add 10% to 30% originality. From the interaction record it was confirmed that phrase structure was shared by making consent on which part to be varied or fixed.","PeriodicalId":408015,"journal":{"name":"2011 RO-MAN","volume":"157 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115905720","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}
2011 RO-MANPub Date : 2011-08-30DOI: 10.1109/ROMAN.2011.6005274
M. Walters, M. A. Oskoei, D. Syrdal, K. Dautenhahn
{"title":"A long-term Human-Robot Proxemic study","authors":"M. Walters, M. A. Oskoei, D. Syrdal, K. Dautenhahn","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.2011.6005274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2011.6005274","url":null,"abstract":"A long-term Human-Robot Proxemic (HRP) study was performed using a newly developed Autonomous Proxemic System (APS) for a robot to measure and control the approach distances to the human participants. The main findings were that most HRP adaptation occurred in the first two interaction sessions, and for the remaining four weeks, approach distance preferences remained relatively steady, apart from some short periods of increased distances for some participants. There were indications that these were associated with episodes where the robot malfunctioned, so this raises the possibility of users trust in the robot affecting HRP distance. The study also found that approach distances for humans approaching the robot and the robot approaching the human were comparable, though there were indications that humans preferred to approach the robot more closely than they allowed the robot to approach them in a physically restricted area. Two participants left the study prematurely, stating they were bored with the repetitive experimental procedures. This highlights issues related to the often incompatible demands of keeping experimental controlled conditions vs. having realistic, engaging and varied HRI trial scenarios.","PeriodicalId":408015,"journal":{"name":"2011 RO-MAN","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123744030","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}
2011 RO-MANPub Date : 2011-08-30DOI: 10.1109/ROMAN.2011.6005237
B. Larochelle, G. Kruijff, N. Smets, T. Mioch, P. Groenewegen
{"title":"Establishing human situation awareness using a multi-modal operator control unit in an urban search & rescue human-robot team","authors":"B. Larochelle, G. Kruijff, N. Smets, T. Mioch, P. Groenewegen","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.2011.6005237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2011.6005237","url":null,"abstract":"Early on in a disaster it is crucial for humans to make an assessment of the situation, to help determine further action. Robots can potentially assist humans here, particularly when the hotzone is too dangerous for humans. Crucial in this human-robot team effort is that the system of robot and means of interacting with it afford the human to build up a sufficient awareness of the situation, to make an assessment. The paper investigates this issue from the viewpoint of the operator control unit (OCU). The paper presents the principles, design, implementation, and high-fidelity field trial results of an OCU for a human-robot team in an Urban Search & Rescue mission.","PeriodicalId":408015,"journal":{"name":"2011 RO-MAN","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130433483","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}
2011 RO-MANPub Date : 2011-08-30DOI: 10.1109/ROMAN.2011.6005243
Masanori Suzuki, Yugo Takeuchi
{"title":"Awareness of human's subjective efficiency in collaborative HAI situation","authors":"Masanori Suzuki, Yugo Takeuchi","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.2011.6005243","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2011.6005243","url":null,"abstract":"Our study aims to determine how an agent should be designed to perform cooperative work smoothly. From previous experiments, it has been suggested that a human does not acknowledge an agent as a real participant. We considered how we could confirm the above possibility with a cognitive experiment. We designed an experiment with a game format to determine whether subjects would acknowledge an agent's action and existence if the experimental situation presents mutual purpose and timing of entities. The results of our experiment clearly show that work efficiency improves by the agent's behavior. The results of these experiments will influence the model of Human-Agent Interaction in the future.","PeriodicalId":408015,"journal":{"name":"2011 RO-MAN","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131744234","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}
2011 RO-MANPub Date : 2011-08-30DOI: 10.1109/ROMAN.2011.6005295
H. Fukai, Gang Xu
{"title":"Fast and robust registration of multiple 3D point clouds","authors":"H. Fukai, Gang Xu","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.2011.6005295","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2011.6005295","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a method for the fast and robust registration of multiple 3D point clouds. This method contributes the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) robot. The problem of point cloud registration can be roughly classified into two. The problem of estimation of the relation from unknown geometry position is coarse registration. Moreover, in case of roughly position is known, the problem of estimation of the relation from known initial position is fine registration. In this study, we solve the coarse registration problem by exhaustive search, and prepare the initial positions for fine registration. To employ exhaustive search, we realize robust matching by using no feature point. The fine registration problem is solved by the ICP algorithm. In this case, reduction of initial positions for the ICP algorithm by non-extremum suppression that uses distance between two range data solves the problem of calculation cost. The distance evaluation function that robust for measurement error tackles the outlier problem. The problem of calculation cost is solved by registering the distance from the last point cloud data beforehand by the distance field. The effectiveness of the proposed method is shown by a actual data.","PeriodicalId":408015,"journal":{"name":"2011 RO-MAN","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133211426","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}
2011 RO-MANPub Date : 2011-08-30DOI: 10.1109/ROMAN.2011.6005248
Mehrez Kristou, A. Ohya, S. Yuta
{"title":"Target person identification and following based on omnidirectional camera and LRF data fusion","authors":"Mehrez Kristou, A. Ohya, S. Yuta","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.2011.6005248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2011.6005248","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present the current progress of our approach to identify and follow a target person for a service robot application. The robot is equipped with LRF and Omni directional camera. Our approach is based on multi-sensor fusion in which a person is identified using the panoramic image and tracked using the LRF. The selection of the target person is implemented to improve the identification when multiple candidates are detected. Our approach is successfully implemented on a mobile robot. A simplified target person following behavior is implemented to focus on the proposed method's efficiency. Several experiments are conducted and showed the effectiveness of our approach to identify and follow human in indoor environments.","PeriodicalId":408015,"journal":{"name":"2011 RO-MAN","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114640764","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}
2011 RO-MANPub Date : 2011-08-30DOI: 10.1109/ROMAN.2011.6005258
E. A. Sisbot, Raquel Ros, R. Alami
{"title":"Situation assessment for human-robot interactive object manipulation","authors":"E. A. Sisbot, Raquel Ros, R. Alami","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.2011.6005258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2011.6005258","url":null,"abstract":"In daily human interactions spatial reasoning occupies an important place. With this ability we can build relations between objects and people, and we can predict the capabilities and the knowledge of the people around us. An interactive robot is also expected to have these abilities in order to establish an efficient and natural interaction. In this paper we present a situation assessment reasoner, based on spatial reasoning and perspective taking, which generates on-line relations between objects and agents in the environment. Being fully integrated to a complete architecture, this reasoner sends the generated symbolic knowledge to a fact data base which is built on the basis on an ontology and which is accessible to the entire system. This work is also part of a broader effort to develop a complete decisional framework for human-robot interactive task achievement.","PeriodicalId":408015,"journal":{"name":"2011 RO-MAN","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115006516","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}
2011 RO-MANPub Date : 2011-08-30DOI: 10.1109/ROMAN.2011.6005234
H. Hashimoto, Ikuyo Yoshida, Y. Teramoto, Hideki Tabata, Chao Han
{"title":"Extraction of tacit knowledge as expert engineer's skill based on mixed human sensing","authors":"H. Hashimoto, Ikuyo Yoshida, Y. Teramoto, Hideki Tabata, Chao Han","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.2011.6005234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2011.6005234","url":null,"abstract":"We present a mixed human sensing method to extract tacit knowledge of skillful operation from expert engineers in the manufacturing industry. The method that consists of the field-oriented interview, the human motion capture and the video analysis is applied for experts and beginners, and the operational differences between those are analyzed. By returning and confirming the results of the analysis to the subjects, tacit knowledge is effectively extracted. Through the examinations applying the method to subjects operating in an industrial factory, the effectiveness of the method is shown.","PeriodicalId":408015,"journal":{"name":"2011 RO-MAN","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130115165","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}
2011 RO-MANPub Date : 2011-08-30DOI: 10.1109/ROMAN.2011.6005246
F. Hegel, Sebastian Gieselmann, Annika Peters, Patrick Holthaus, B. Wrede
{"title":"Towards a typology of meaningful signals and cues in social robotics","authors":"F. Hegel, Sebastian Gieselmann, Annika Peters, Patrick Holthaus, B. Wrede","doi":"10.1109/ROMAN.2011.6005246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2011.6005246","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present a first step towards a typology of relevant signals and cues in human-robot interaction (HRI). In human as well as in animal communication systems, signals and cues play an important role for senders and receivers of such signs. In our typology, we systematically distinguish between a robot's signals and cues which are either designed to be human-like or artificial to create meaningful information. Subsequently, developers and designers should be aware of which signs affect a user's judgements on social robots. For this reason, we first review several signals and cues that have already been successfully used in HRI with regard to our typology. Second, we discuss crucial human-like and artificial cues which have so far not been considered in the design of social robots - although they are highly likely to affect a user's judgement of social robots.","PeriodicalId":408015,"journal":{"name":"2011 RO-MAN","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128575958","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}