[Mike Rosenstein]


User intentions funneled through a human-robot interfface
M.T. Rosenstein, A.H. Fagg, S. Ou, and R.A. Grupen. User intentions funneled through a human-robot interface. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 257-259, 2005.
Abstract: We describe a method for predicting user intentions as part of a human-robot interface. In particular, we show that funnels, i.e., geometric objects that partition an input space, provide a convenient means for discriminating individual objects and for clustering sets of objects for hierarchical tasks. One advantage of the proposed implementation is that a simple parametric model can be used to specify the shape of a funnel, and a straightforward heuristic for setting initial parameter values appears promising. We discuss the possibility of adapting the user interface with machine learning techniques, and we illustrate the approach with a humanoid robot performing a variation of a standard peginsertion task.
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See also:
  Remote supervisory control of a humanoid robot
  Robot learning with predictions of operator intent
  Supervised actor-critic reinforcement learning

updated 13-Dec-2005
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