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Designing for human‐robot symbiosis

D.M. Wilkes (Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA)
A. Alford (Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA)
M.E. Cambron (Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA)
T.E. Rogers (Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA)
R.A. Peters II (Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA)
K. Kawamura (Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA)

Industrial Robot

ISSN: 0143-991x

Article publication date: 1 February 1999

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Abstract

For the past ten years, the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory (IRL) at Vanderbilt University has been developing service robots that interact naturally, closely and safely with human beings. Two main issues for research have arisen from this prior work. The first is how to achieve a high level of interaction between the human and robot. The result has been the philosophy of human directed local autonomy (HuDL), a guiding principle for research, design, and implementation of service robots. The human‐robot relationship we seek to achieve is symbiotic in the sense that both the human and the robot work together to achieve goals, for example as aids to the elderly or disabled. The second issue is the general problem of system integration, with a specific focus on integrating humans into the service robotic system. This issue has led to the development of the Intelligent Machine Architecture (IMA), a novel software architecture specifically designed to simplify the integration of the many diverse algorithms, sensors, and actuators necessary for intelligent interactive service robots.

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Wilkes, D.M., Alford, A., Cambron, M.E., Rogers, T.E., Peters, R.A. and Kawamura, K. (1999), "Designing for human‐robot symbiosis", Industrial Robot, Vol. 26 No. 1, pp. 49-58. https://doi.org/10.1108/01439919910250223

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