Human Centered Robot Systems: Cognition, Interaction, Technology

✍ Scribed by Thorsten P. Spexard, Marc Hanheide (auth.), Helge Ritter, Gerhard Sagerer, Rüdiger Dillmann, Martin Buss (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 218
• Series: Cognitive Systems Monographs 6
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Human Centered Robotic Systems must be able to interact with humans such that the burden of adaptation lies with the machine and not with the human. This book collates a set of prominent papers presented during a two-day conference on "Human Centered Robotic Systems" held on November 19-20, 2009, in Bielefeld University, Germany. The aim of the conference was to bring together researchers from the areas of robotics, computer science, psychology, linguistics, and biology who are all focusing on a shared goal of cognitive interaction. A survey of recent approaches, the current state-of-the-art, and possible future directions in this interdisciplinary field is presented. It provides practitioners and scientists with an up-to-date introduction to this dynamic field, with methods and solutions that are likely to significantly impact on our future lives.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
System Integration Supporting Evolutionary Development and Design....Pages 1-9
Direct Control of an Active Tactile Sensor Using Echo State Networks....Pages 11-21
Dynamic Potential Fields for Dexterous Tactile Exploration....Pages 23-31
Unlimited Workspace - Coupling a Mobile Haptic Interface with a Mobile Teleoperator....Pages 33-41
An Architecture for Real-Time Control in Multi-robot Systems....Pages 43-52
Shared-Control Paradigms in Multi-Operator-Single-Robot Teleoperation....Pages 53-62
Assessment of a Tangible User Interface for an Affordable Humanoid Robot....Pages 63-72
A Cognitively Motivated Route-Interface for Mobile Robot Navigation....Pages 73-82
With a Flick of the Eye: Assessing Gaze-Controlled Human-Computer Interaction....Pages 83-92
Integrating Inhomogeneous Processing and Proto-object Formation in a Computational Model of Visual Attention....Pages 93-102
Dimensionality Reduction in HRTF by Using Multiway Array Analysis....Pages 103-110
Multimodal Laughter Detection in Natural Discourses....Pages 111-120
Classifier Fusion Applied to Facial Expression Recognition: An Experimental Comparison....Pages 121-129
Impact of Video Source Coding on the Performance of Stereo Matching....Pages 131-140
3D Action Recognition in an Industrial Environment....Pages 141-150
Investigating Human-Human Approach and Hand-Over....Pages 151-160
Modeling of Biomechanical Parameters Based on LTM Structures....Pages 161-171
Towards Meaningful Robot Gesture....Pages 173-182
Virtual Partner for a Haptic Interaction Task....Pages 183-191
Social Motorics – Towards an Embodied Basis of Social Human-Robot Interaction....Pages 193-203
Spatio-Temporal Situated Interaction in Ambient Assisted Living....Pages 205-214
Back Matter....Pages -

✦ Subjects

Robotics and Automation; Computational Intelligence; Cognitive Psychology; Philosophy of Mind; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)