'...to perform their tasks safely and efficiently, robots must show the same degree of precisions in their skills as humans do. ...'

Partners involved

RA leader : LAAS

partners involved : LAAS, UH, UniKarl, IPA, EPFL

RA objectives

A cognitive robot companion must be able to evolve and learn in an open environment and to interact with humans. This requires capabilities in terms of decision-making, attribution of intentionality and expression of robot intentions.

Therefore, decisional abilities and a cognitive robot architectue are needed, to allow the robot to :
take into account context and user dependencies while performing its tasks
take the initiative, and then establish and conduct an interactive session with a human
adopt various interaction styles depending on the context
allow the human to act physically with the robot (e.g. push, guide) but also to influence its on-going decisional processes.

Work in Research Activity 6 will follow two streams that will be developed in close interaction with the other topics of the project :
a control architecture for a robot companion
a scheme for interactive human-robot problem solving

Inputs and results from Research Activity 6 will be integrated essentially in Key Experiments 2 ('The Curious Robot') and is also closely related to the other project Research Activities.

Related project publications

Below are only listed some of the RA6-related publications, please see the Publications page for more.

Aurélie Clodic, Sara Fleury, Rachid Alami, Mathieu Herrb, Raja Chatila, Supervision and interaction. Analysis from an autonomous tour-guide robot deployment, Accepted to ICAR2005

Aurelie Clodic, Vincent Montreuil, Rachid Alami and Raja Chatila, A Decisional Framework for Autonomous Robots Interacting with Humans, to appear in 14th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 05)

Relevant Links

Rackham, a tour-guide robot at the 'Cité de l'Espace' in Toulouse : in English / in French