AuRorA - Autonomous robots for assistance functions: Interactive basic skills
Current developments in the context of human-robot cooperation in production, but also advances in the areas of manipulation and navigation, open up new opportunities and markets for service robots outside industrial workshops. This project concentrates on supporting and relieving people through interactive, proactive robot behaviour in a smart home or smart hotel. The robot serves as a real avatar that makes interaction with the abstract environment easier and more natural and offers motor assistance.
In a smart home or smart hotel, a proactive robot supports and relieves the occupants or guests of everyday tasks. What is innovative is that the robot independently learns new interactive behavior that links events such as "ringing at the door" with robot reactions. Depending on the transition probabilities already learned, the robot's dialogue with humans changes from a questioning to an informative character. The adaptive dialogues together with the non-verbal reactions of the robot ensure a high acceptance and quality of the interaction. The learned behaviour will be intensively evaluated in two practical scenarios, receiveing/guiding guests and cooking, with regard to robustness and transferability.
Contact: Christoph Zimmermann