Session 5: Human Robot Interaction

Abstract

This session consisted of five presentations, all of which focused on robotic systems that were intended to interact with humans. Human Robot Interaction is a highly interdisciplinary field in which researchers from human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, robotics, natural language understanding, and social science all must contribute, and this session demonstrated contributions from all of these disciplines.

The first paper, Aerial Tele-Operation of Miniature Rotorcraft by Andersh, Mettler, and Papanikolpoulos, all from the University of Minnesota, described a preliminary investigation of teleoperation of a small helicopter. The key contributions of the work as presented are to identify metrics that capture the effectiveness of the task and the workload on the supervisor, and to investigate different types of control approaches and operator interfaces. A pirouette flight task was investigated experimentally and described.