Collaborative robots provide prospective and great solutions to human–robot cooperative tasks. In this paper, we present a comprehensive review for two significant topics in human–robot interaction: robots learning from demonstrations and...
Understanding the behavioral dynamics that underline human-robot interactions in groups remains one of the core challenges in social robotics research. However, despite a growing interest in this topic, there is still a lack of established and valida...
This paper connects two large research areas, namely sentiment analysis and human–robot interaction. Emotion analysis, as a subfield of sentiment analysis, explores text data and, based on the characteristics of the text and generally known emo...
This paper presents the development of a visual-perception system on a dual-arm mobile robot for human-robot interaction. This visual system integrates three subsystems. Hand gesture recognition is utilized to trigger human-robot interaction. Engagem...
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For a service robot to serve travelers at an airport or for a social robot to live with a human partner at home, it is vital for robots to possess the ability to empathize with human partners and express congruent emotions accordingly. We conducted a...
The increasingly central role of robotic agents in daily life requires effective human–robot interaction (HRI). For roboticists to optimize interaction design, it is crucial to understand the potential effects of robotic agents on human perform...
An intriguing challenge in the human–robot interaction field is the prospect of endowing robots with emotional intelligence to make the interaction more genuine, intuitive, and natural. A crucial aspect in achieving this goal is the robot’s capabilit...
Augmented reality, augmented television and second screen are cutting edge technologies that provide end users extra and enhanced information related to certain events in real time. This enriched information helps users better understand such events,...
Travellers use the term waymarking to define the action of posting signs, or waymarks, along a route. These marks are intended to be points of reference during navigation for the environment. In this research, we will define waymarking as the skill o...
In this paper, the problem of making a safe compliant contact between a human and an assistive robot is considered. Users with disabilities have a need to utilize their assistive robots for physical human–robot interaction (PHRI) during certain...
Gaze is a natural and rapid non-verbal interaction mode, particularly well-suited for human–robot interaction in busy space environments. However, the space human–robot interaction based on gaze is still in its infancy. Therefore, this pa...
Safety plays a key role in human–robot interactions in collaborative robot (cobot) applications. This paper provides a general procedure to guarantee safe workstations allowing human operations, robot contributions, the dynamical environment, a...
Environmental psychology aims to study human behavior with regard to the environment and how psychological techniques can be used to motivate behavior change. We argue that these concepts can be applied to interactive robots designed for other tasks,...
Human–robot interaction is of the utmost importance as it enables seamless collaboration and communication between humans and robots, leading to enhanced productivity and efficiency. It involves gathering data from humans, transmitting the data...
Cooperative robots in the workspace have an effect on safety that is not yet fully understood. This work collates pre-existing knowledge on human, technological and organizational factors for human-robot interaction and develops a system dynamics mod...
Autonomous robot companions must engage users to create long-lasting bonds that promote their better and frequent use. Previous studies in the area revealed that a personalised human–robot interaction facilitates such connections, leading peopl...
HRI designers are faced with the task of creating robots that are easy and pleasant to use for the users. The growing body of research in human–robot interaction (HRI) is still mainly focused on technical aspects of the interaction. It lacks defined...
Interaction errors are hard to avoid in the process of human–robot interaction (HRI). User emotions toward interaction errors could further affect the user’s attitudes to robots and experiences of HRI and so on. In this regard, the presen...
Human–robot interaction (HRI) is a broad research topic, which is defined as understanding, designing, developing, and evaluating the robotic system to be used with or by humans. This paper presents a survey on the control, safety, and perspect...
A big challenge in human–robot interaction (HRI) is the design of autonomous robots that collaborate effectively with humans, exposing behaviors similar to those exhibited by humans when they interact with each other. Indeed, robots are part of...
In order to achieve effective physical human–robot interaction, human dynamic characteristics needs to be considered in admittance control. This paper proposes a variable admittance control method for physical human–robot interaction based on traject...
Recent developments in robotics have enabled humanoid robots to be used in tasks where they have to physically interact with humans, including robot-supported caregiving. This interaction—referred to as physical human–robot interaction (p...
As the global population rapidly ages with longer life expectancy and declining birth rates, the need for healthcare services and caregivers for older adults is increasing. Current research envisions addressing this shortage by introducing domestic s...
This article presents interdisciplinary research on the social and technological aspects of interactions between older adults and the humanoid robot Pepper (SoftBank Robotics). Our case study is based on the regular meetings that are a part of an exp...
As systems grow more automatized, the human operator is all too often overlooked. Although human-robot interaction (HRI) can be quite demanding in terms of cognitive resources, the mental states (MS) of the operators are not yet taken into account by...
Understanding human comfort when in the presence of robots is vital to constructing socially adaptive robotic systems. This study introduces the Human–Robot Proxemic Index (HRPI). This quantitative model estimates user comfort based on three co...
This study develops a comprehensive robotic system, termed the robot cognitive system, for complex environments, integrating three models: the engagement model, the intention model, and the human–robot interaction (HRI) model. The system aims t...
We will increasingly become dependent on automation to support our manufacturing and daily living, and robots are likely to take an important place in this. Unfortunately, currently not all the robots are accessible for all users. This is due to the...
Exoskeletons have been assessed by qualitative and quantitative features known as performance indicators. Within these, the ergonomic indicators have been isolated, creating a lack of methodologies to analyze and assess physical interfaces. In this s...
This paper provides a comprehensive survey of Human–Robot Interaction (HRI) for indoor mobile robots operating in human-centered environments such as hospitals, laboratories, offices, and homes. We review interaction modalities—including...
For successful human–robot collaboration, it is crucial to establish and sustain quality interaction between humans and robots, making it essential to facilitate human–robot interaction (HRI) effectively. The evolution of robot intelligen...
In this paper, a multimodal user-emotion detection system for social robots is presented. This system is intended to be used during human–robot interaction, and it is integrated as part of the overall interaction system of the robot: the Robotics Dia...
In human–robot collaborative assembly tasks, it is necessary to properly balance skills to maximize productivity. Human operators can contribute with their abilities in dexterous manipulation, reasoning and problem solving, but a bounded workload (co...
This study outlines the design and evaluation of a biomimetic robotic hand tailored for Human–Robot Interaction (HRI), focusing on improvements in tactile fidelity driven by material choice. Thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) was selected over po...
Due to an increasing number of robots in the working world, the interaction between humans and robots will become more and more frequent. Hence, the research field of human–robot collaboration is becoming progressively relevant and should there...
As the safety of a human body is the main priority while interacting with robots, the field of tactile sensors has expanded for acquiring tactile information and ensuring safe human–robot interaction (HRI). Existing lightweight and thin tactile senso...
The idea to use a cost-effective pneumatic padding for sensing of physical interaction between a user and wearable rehabilitation robots is not new, but until now there has not been any practical relevant realization. In this paper, we present a nove...
For robots in human environments, learning complex and demanding interaction skills from humans and responding quickly to human motions are highly desirable. A common challenge for interaction tasks is that the robot has to satisfy both the task spac...
This study examines the effect of a COVID-19 Officer Robot (COR) on passersby compliance and the effects of its minor design manipulations on human–robot interaction. A robotic application was developed to ensure participants entering a public buildi...
This article aims to explore, investigate, and determine the prerequisites that learners (students) should possess for participating in and being adequately benefitted from digital (robotics-enabled) K–12 STEM education offered through intuitiv...
As collaborative robots (cobots) increasingly share workspaces with humans, ensuring safe physical human–robot interaction (pHRI) has become paramount. This systematic review addresses safety assessment in pHRI, focussing on the industrial fiel...
Human–robot interaction (HRI) via voice command has significantly advanced in recent years, with large Vision–Language–Action (VLA) models demonstrating particular promise in human–robot voice interaction. However, these syste...
A collaborative robot should be sensitive to the user intention while maintaining safe interaction during tasks such as hand guiding. Observers based on the discrete Fourier transform have been studied to distinguish between the low-frequency motion...
This paper presents a robot partner development platform based on smart devices. Humans communicate with others based on the basic motivations of human cooperation and have communicative motives based on social attributes. Understanding and applying...
In gaze-based Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), it is important to determine human visual intention for interacting with robots. One typical HRI interaction scenario is that a human selects an object by gaze and a robotic manipulator will pick up the ob...
In human–robot collaboration (HRC) scenarios with direct physical contact, accurately estimating human intentions and adjusting robot behaviors based on multimodal information is the core factors that restrict the efficiency and precision of cu...
Human–robot cooperative tasks require physical human–robot interaction (pHRI) systems that can adapt to individual human behaviors while ensuring robustness and stability. This paper presents a dual-loop control framework combining an adm...
To promote the acceptance of robots in society, it is crucial to design systems exhibiting adaptive behavior. This is particularly needed in various social domains (e.g., cultural heritage, healthcare, education). Despite significant advancements in...
Incorporating hand gesture recognition in human–robot interaction has the potential to provide a natural way of communication, thus contributing to a more fluid collaboration toward optimizing the efficiency of the application at hand and overc...
Human–robot interaction sensing is a compulsory feature in modern robotic systems where direct contact or close collaboration is desired. Rehabilitation and assistive robotics are fields where interaction forces are required for both safety and incre...
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