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Modeling and Inferring Attention between Humans or for Human-Robot Interactions
More and more intelligent systems have to interact with humans. In order to communicate efficiently, these systems need to perceive and understand us. A key factor of communication is the people's visual focus of attention (VFOA), which is useful to estima ...
EPFL2021Comprehensive Interactive Soft Interfaces for Wearable Tactile Feedback
As the field of robotics continues to grow outside the manufacturing environment into our daily lives, the interactions between humans and robots are increasingly becoming close and dynamic. This type of environment requires robots to be less rigid, multi- ...
EPFL2021Does spontaneous motion lead to intuitive Body-Machine Interfaces? A fitness study of different body segments for wearable telerobotics
Dario Floreano, Fabrizio Schiano, Matteo Macchini
Human-Robot Interfaces (HRIs) represent a crucial component in telerobotic systems. Body-Machine Interfaces (BoMIs) based on body motion can feel more intuitive than standard HRIs for naive users as they leverage humans’ natural control capability over the ...
2021Beyond Soft Hands: Efficient Grasping With Non-Anthropomorphic Soft Grippers
Grasping and manipulation are challenging tasks that are nonetheless critical for many robotic systems and applications. A century ago, robots were conceived as humanoid automata. While conceptual at the time, this viewpoint remains influential today. Many ...
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2021Efficient Depth-based Deep Learning Methods for Multi-Party Pose Estimation
Human detection and pose estimation are essential components for any artificial system responsive to the presence of humans and that react according to human-centered tasks. Robotic systems are typical examples, for which the body pose represents fine grai ...
EPFL2021Learning How to Walk: Warm-starting Optimal Control Solver with Memory of Motion
Sylvain Calinon, Teguh Santoso Lembono
In this paper, we propose a framework to build a memory of motion for warm-starting an optimal control solver for the locomotion task of a humanoid robot. We use HPP Loco3D, a versatile locomotion planner, to generate offline a set of dynamically consisten ...
2020When Positive Perception of the Robot Has No Effect on Learning
Pierre Dillenbourg, Barbara Bruno, Jauwairia Nasir, Utku Norman
Humanoid robots, with a focus on personalised social behaviours, are increasingly being deployed in educational settings to support learning. However, crafting pedagogical HRI designs and robot interventions that have a real, positive impact on participant ...
2020ManiGaze: a Dataset for Evaluating Remote Gaze Estimator in Object Manipulation Situations
Jean-Marc Odobez, Rémy Alain Siegfried, Bozorgmehr Aminian
Gaze estimation allows robots to better understand users and thus to more precisely meet their needs. In this paper, we are interested in gaze sensing for analyzing collaborative tasks and manipulation behaviors in human-robot interactions (HRI), which dif ...
ACM2020Relax and Recover: Guaranteed Range-Only Continuous Localization
Adam James Scholefield, Frederike Dümbgen, Michalina Wanda Pacholska
Range-only localization has applications as diverse as underwater navigation, drone tracking and indoor localization. While the theoretical foundations of lateration---range-only localization for static points---are well understood, there is a lack of unde ...
2020Relax and Recover: Guaranteed Range-Only Continuous Localization
Adam James Scholefield, Frederike Dümbgen, Michalina Wanda Pacholska
Range-only localization has applications as diverse as underwater navigation, drone tracking and indoor localization. While the theoretical foundations of lateration-range-only localization for static points-are well understood, there is a lack of understa ...
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