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A hierarchical approach for human-machine-interaction monitoring and system reconfiguration is proposed, which is grounded on local quality of interaction detection and mode-switching in real-time. For integrating the human behaviour in the closed-loop control structure, the overall technical system is decomposed recursively into nested behaviour levels and interfaced to the user on the corresponding level. In a gaze-based wheelchair control application, the local interaction with the user’s gaze is assessed in order to estimate the intention for a specific action related to wheelchair control. Besides the level of interest directed to a goal object, the quality of estimation is forwarded to a reconfiguration component. Finally, the system is switched to the interaction mode, which provides maximum assistance under the given interaction constraints.
C. Bartolein—Now with the John Deere European Technology Innovation Center, Kaiserslautern, Germany.
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The work on gaze-based control was supported by the German Ministry of Education and Research under grant 16SV7181.
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Wagner, A., Bartolein, C., Badreddin, E. (2017). Multi-level Human-Machine-Interaction Monitoring and System Reconfiguration. In: Rodić, A., Borangiu, T. (eds) Advances in Robot Design and Intelligent Control. RAAD 2016. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 540. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49058-8_40
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