TY - GEN
T1 - Towards safe human-robot interaction
AU - Grigore, Elena Corina
AU - Eder, Kerstin
AU - Lenz, Alexander
AU - Skachek, Sergey
AU - Pipe, Anthony G.
AU - Melhuish, Chris
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - The development of human-assistive robots challenges engineering and introduces new ethical and legal issues. One fundamental concern is whether human-assistive robots can be trusted. Essential components of trustworthiness are usefulness and safety; both have to be demonstrated before such robots could stand a chance of passing product certification. This paper describes the setup of an environment to investigate safety and liveness aspects in the context of human-robot interaction. We present first insights into setting up and testing a human-robot interaction system in which the role of the robot is that of serving drinks to a human. More specifically, we use this system to investigate when the right time is for the robot to release the drink such that the action is both safe and useful. We briefly outline follow-on research that uses the safety and liveness properties of this scenario as specification.
AB - The development of human-assistive robots challenges engineering and introduces new ethical and legal issues. One fundamental concern is whether human-assistive robots can be trusted. Essential components of trustworthiness are usefulness and safety; both have to be demonstrated before such robots could stand a chance of passing product certification. This paper describes the setup of an environment to investigate safety and liveness aspects in the context of human-robot interaction. We present first insights into setting up and testing a human-robot interaction system in which the role of the robot is that of serving drinks to a human. More specifically, we use this system to investigate when the right time is for the robot to release the drink such that the action is both safe and useful. We briefly outline follow-on research that uses the safety and liveness properties of this scenario as specification.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-23232-9_29
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-23232-9_29
M3 - Conference Contribution (Conference Proceeding)
AN - SCOPUS:80052790234
SN - 9783642232312
VL - 6856 LNAI
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 323
EP - 335
BT - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
T2 - 12th Annual Conference on Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, TAROS 2011
Y2 - 31 August 2011 through 2 September 2011
ER -