Sylvain Calinon and Aude Billard (2008)
A framework integrating statistical and social cues to teach a humanoid robot new skills
In: Proc. IEEE Intl Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Workshop on Social Interaction with Intelligent Indoor Robots. IEEE.
Bringing robots as collaborative partners into homes presents
various challenges to human-robot interaction. Robots will need to
interact with untrained users in environments that are originally
designed for humans. Compared to their industrial homologous form,
humanoid robots can not be preprogrammed with an initial set of
behaviours. They should adapt their skills to a huge range of
possible tasks without needing to change the environments and
tools to fit their needs. The rise of these humanoids implies an
inherent social dimension to this technology, where the end-users
should be able to teach new skills to these robots in an intuitive
manner, relying only on their experience in teaching new skills to
other human partners. Our research aims at designing a generic
Robot Programming by Demonstration (RPD) framework based on a
probabilistic representation of the task constraints, which allows
to integrate information from cross-situational statistics and
from various social cues such as joint attention or vocal
intonation. This paper presents our ongoing research towards
bringing user-friendly human-robot teaching systems that would
speed up the skill transfer process.