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.

Bidirectional Communication Control for Human-Robot Collaboration / Ferrari, D.; Benzi, F.; Secchi, C.. - (2022), pp. 7430-7436. (Intervento presentato al convegno 39th IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2022 tenutosi a Philadelphia, PA nel MAY 23-27, 2022) [10.1109/ICRA46639.2022.9811665].

Bidirectional Communication Control for Human-Robot Collaboration

Ferrari D.;Benzi F.;Secchi C.
2022

Abstract

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.
2022
39th IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2022
Philadelphia, PA
MAY 23-27, 2022
7430
7436
Ferrari, D.; Benzi, F.; Secchi, C.
Bidirectional Communication Control for Human-Robot Collaboration / Ferrari, D.; Benzi, F.; Secchi, C.. - (2022), pp. 7430-7436. (Intervento presentato al convegno 39th IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2022 tenutosi a Philadelphia, PA nel MAY 23-27, 2022) [10.1109/ICRA46639.2022.9811665].
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