Publication

Perception-intention-action cycle as a human acceptable way for improving human-robot collaborative tasks

Conference Article

Conference

ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)

Edition

2023

Pages

567-571

Doc link

https://doi.org/10.1145/3568294.3580149

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Abstract

In Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) tasks, the classical Perception- Action cycle can not fully explain the collaborative behaviour of the human-robot pair until it is extended to Perception-Intention- Action (PIA) cycle, giving to the human’s intention a key role at the same level of the robot’s perception and not as a subblock of this. Although part of the human’s intention can be perceived or inferred by the other agent, this is prone to misunderstandings so the true intention has to be explicitly informed in some cases to fulfill the task. Here, we explore both types of intention and we combine them with the robot’s perception through the concept of Situation Awareness (SA). We validate the PIA cycle and its acceptance by the user with a preliminary experiment in an object transportation task showing that its usage can increase trust in the robot.

Categories

automation.

Author keywords

Physical Human-Robot Interaction, Human-Robot Teaming, Human- in-the-Loop

Scientific reference

J.E. Domínguez, N.A. Rodríguez and A. Sanfeliu. Perception-intention-action cycle as a human acceptable way for improving human-robot collaborative tasks, 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2023, Stockholm, in Companion of the HRI'23, pp. 567-571.