Researchers and engineers have used primitive actions to facilitate programming of tasks
since the days of Shakey [1]. Task-level programming, which requires the user to specify …

We present a human-robot interactive scenario consisting of a memory card game between
Hondapsilas humanoid robot ASIMO and a human player. The game features perception …

A publish-subscribe architecture based blackboard system for selecting and exchanging
selected information among a plurality of processing modules using filters for implementing …

Basic Human–Robot Interaction (324 Pages) Page 1 1 Chapter 1 Introduction to Human–Robot
Interaction Abstract An overview of what human–robot interaction (HRI) is and the basics of …

Programming humanoid robots is very difficult due to the significant demands imposed by
managing balancing, locomotion, dynamics, and kinematic redundancy. Current research …

The present state of designing behaviors for humanoid robots can be viewed as analogous
to programming a computer using machine language. Even when such complex issues as …

Modeling users in order to design appropriate interfaces and interactions or to simulate a
specific user behavior is an ambitious task. When using user model attributes to design an …

We propose an architecture for a system that will “watch and listen to” an instructional video
of a human performing a task and translate the audio and video information into a task for a …

Recently, humanoid robots have begun to demonstrate an array of impressive motor skills,
such as climbing stairs (Honda Motor Co., Ltd., 2000), whole body manipulations of large …

Current cognitive vision systems and autonomous robots are not able to flexibly adapt to
novel scenes. For example, when entering a new kitchen it is relatively simple for humans to …