Using teleoperation to investigate human-robot interaction

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titleUsing teleoperation to investigate human-robot interaction
start_date2014/04/02
schedule16h
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summaryAlthough humanoid robots use advanced technologies and theories, these systems still fail to be as friendly and natural as a ‘real’ human in interaction. The main reason of this failure may be due to the extreme complexity of human communication that they cannot understand and replicate. Instead of building new models from scratch, our novel approach turns around the problem: human behavior is accurately replicated in real-time on a humanoid robot to study and to learn new models. Through teleoperation and teleperception, an experimenter is directly linked with a humanoid robot. He can control in real-time and free of attached sensors the gestures performed by the robot with his own movements. The experimenter can perceive the scene as if he was the robot. The humanoid robot is used as a proxy between two humans involved in dyadic interactions. Using online manipulation of one specific behavior (e.g., eye vergence) at a time and preserving the rest of the behaviors intact, we will be able to better understand human-robot interaction and to determine the real perceptual limits of such behavior. Results on effects of damping head movements will be presented.
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