Household Service Robotics

Chapter 6.4

Toward a Human–Robot Symbiotic System¹

Kazuhiko Kawamura, Tamara E. Rogers, Kimberly A. Hambuchen,  and Duygun Erol     Center for Intelligent Systems, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

Abstract

Partnership between a person and a robot could be simplified if the robot were intelligent enough to understand human intentions and perform accordingly. During the last decade, we have been developing such an intelligent robot called Intelligent Soft-Arm Control (ISAC). Originally, ISAC was designed to assist the physically disabled, but gradually became a test bed for more robust human-robot teaming (see: http://eecs.vanderbilt.edu/CIS/). In this chapter, we will describe a framework for human-robot interaction, a multi-agent based robot ...