Bidirectional Communication Control for Human-Robot Collaboration

Autor: Ferrari, D., Benzi, F., Secchi, C.
Rok vydání: 2022
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DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2206.05202
Popis: A fruitful collaboration is based on the mutual knowledge of each other skills and on the possibility of communicating their own limits and proposing alternatives to adapt the execution of a task to the capabilities of the collaborators. This paper aims at reproducing such a scenario in a human-robot collaboration setting by proposing a novel communication control architecture. Exploiting control barrier functions, the robot is made aware of its (dynamic) skills and limits and, thanks to a local predictor, it is able to assess if it is possible to execute a requested task and, if not, to propose alternative by relaxing some constraints. The controller is interfaced with a communication infrastructure that enables human and robot to set up a bidirectional communication about the task to execute and the human to take an informed decision on the behavior of the robot. A comparative experimental validation is proposed.
Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures, 1 table
Databáze: OpenAIRE