Brad Hayes’ paper “Challenges In Shared-Environment Human-Robot Collaboration” has been accepted for presentation at the workshop on Collaborative Manipulation to be held at the 8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2013) in Tokyo, Japan March 3-6, 2013.
Abstract—We present and discuss four important yet underserved research questions critical to the future of shared environment human-robot collaboration. We begin with a brief survey of research surrounding individual components required for a complete collaborative robot control system, discussing the current state of the art in Learning from Demonstration, active learning, adaptive planning systems, and intention recognition. We motivate the exploration of the presented research questions by relating them to existing work and representative use cases from the domains of construction and cooking.