Sharing and trading in a telerobotics system
Kai Wei Ong · 2006
With the functions of physical robots now extended beyond academia into factories, homes and fields, the interactions between humans and robots have become increasingly extensive and ubiquitous.The current state of human interaction with robots in comparison to simple "machines" that operate in structured environment, such as industrial robotics, is quite different.Robots differ from these machines in that they are capable of functioning in evolving situations, reasoning and acting in a relatively complex domain.The deployment of these robots leads to an important research issue in the design and development of a Human-Robot System (HRS), i.e. to look into how human and robot can interact seamlessly to accomplish task objectives. Human-Robot Interfaces:Concerns of the design and development of user interfaces for HRI. Usability, reliability and safety evaluation standards & metrics:Concerns of the design and development of user interfaces for HRI. Application evaluation:Concerns of the design and development of user interfaces for HRI. Modelling of HRI:Concerns include modelling of human reasoning, intention and action (i.e. to let the robot understands what the human is doing within the context of the task) to more interaction specific concerns such as modelling of human-robot roles and relationships, human-robot authority issues, etc. HRS Architecture:Concerns of the integration of humans and robots at system-level.HRI is strongly related to Human-Computer Interactions (HCI).In HCI, the focus is in the design, implementation and evaluation of interactive computing systems, which includes user interfaces and input devices for human use (Hewett et al. [31]).However, HRI is fundamentally different from HCI because it concerns physical intelligent systems operating in changing, real-world environments, equipped with complex dynamic control systems, and imbued with certain levels of intelligence (e.g.decisionmaking, reasoning, etc.) and autonomy (Fong et al. [17]).Hence, as compared to HCI, conducting research in HRI will be more challenging because it not only concerns the