Human Friendly Robotics

Description

The International Workshop on Human-Friendly Robotics (HFR) is an annual meeting that brings together academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects related to the introduction of robots into everyday life. HFR collects contributions on current developments of a new generation of human-friendly robots, i.e., safe and dependable machines, operating in the close vicinity to humans or directly interacting with them in a wide range of domains. The papers contained in the book describe the newest and most original achievements in the field of human-robot-interaction coming from the work and ideas of young researchers. The contributions cover a wide range of topics related to human-robot interaction, both physical and cognitive, including theories, methodologies, technologies, empirical and experimental studies. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 A Stiffness-Fault-Tolerant Control Strategy for Reliable Physical Human-Robot Interaction (Florian Stuhlenmiller, Gernot Perner, Stephan Rinderknecht, Philipp Beckerle)....Pages 3-14 Tracking Control of Redundant Manipulators with Singularity-Free Orientation Representation and Null-Space Compliant Behaviour (Fabio Vigoriti, Fabio Ruggiero, Vincenzo Lippiello, Luigi Villani)....Pages 15-28 Repetitive Jumping Control for Biped Robots via Force Distribution and Energy Regulation (Gianluca Garofalo, Christian Ott)....Pages 29-45 Multifunctional Principal Component Analysis for Human-Like Grasping (Marco Monforte, Fanny Ficuciello, Bruno Siciliano)....Pages 47-58 Front Matter ....Pages 59-59 A General Approach to Natural Human-Robot Interaction (Lorenzo Sabattini, Valeria Villani, Cristian Secchi, Cesare Fantuzzi)....Pages 61-71 Construction of a Cooperative Operation Avatar Robot System to Enhance Collective Efficacy (Takafumi Sekido, Ryosuke Sakamoto, Teppei Onishi, Hiroyasu Iwata)....Pages 73-83 Locomotion and Telepresence in Virtual and Real Worlds (Alessandro Spada, Marco Cognetti, Alessandro De Luca)....Pages 85-98 Social Robots as Psychometric Tools for Cognitive Assessment: A Pilot Test (Simone Varrasi, Santo Di Nuovo, Daniela Conti, Alessandro Di Nuovo)....Pages 99-112 Front Matter ....Pages 113-113 Development of a Wearable Device for Sign Language Translation (Francesco Pezzuoli, Dario Corona, Maria Letizia Corradini, Andrea Cristofaro)....Pages 115-126 Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind? Affective Impact of Speed and Distance of a Collaborative Industrial Robot on Humans (Marijke Bergman, Maikel van Zandbeek)....Pages 127-137 Dynamic Graphical Signage Improves Response Time and Decreases Negative Attitudes Towards Robots in Human-Robot Co-working (Iveta Eimontaite, Ian Gwilt, David Cameron, Jonathan M. Aitken, Joe Rolph, Saeid Mokaram et al.)....Pages 139-149 Towards Progressive Automation of Repetitive Tasks Through Physical Human-Robot Interaction (Fotios Dimeas, Filippos Fotiadis, Dimitrios Papageorgiou, Antonis Sidiropoulos, Zoe Doulgeri)....Pages 151-163 Front Matter ....Pages 165-165 Enhancing Shared Control via Contact Force Classification in Human-Robot Cooperative Task Execution (Jonathan Cacace, Alberto Finzi, Vincenzo Lippiello)....Pages 167-179 Multi-modal Intention Prediction with Probabilistic Movement Primitives (Oriane Dermy, Francois Charpillet, Serena Ivaldi)....Pages 181-196 Locomotion Mode Classification Based on Support Vector Machines and Hip Joint Angles: A Feasibility Study for Applications in Wearable Robotics (Vito Papapicco, Andrea Parri, Elena Martini, Vitoantonio Bevilacqua, Simona Crea, Nicola Vitiello)....Pages 197-205 Object Segmentation in Depth Maps with One User Click and a Synthetically Trained Fully Convolutional Network (Matthieu Grard, Romain Brégier, Florian Sella, Emmanuel Dellandréa, Liming Chen)....Pages 207-221