Research Topics

Consider all decisional aspects to build a consistent architecture dedicated to human-robot interaction management:​

• Knowledge management and reasoning​
• (Geometric) Situation Assessment​
• Action and task monitoring​
• Communication (Referring Expression Generation (REG)) ​
• Supervision
  • Quality of interaction​
  • Expectations management ​
• Planning (motion and task)

=> All of these taken into account humans' expectations and perspective​

Challenges

• Take into account an overall interaction and all its contingencies, that means enabling the robot to handle its own part of the task but also to monitor the humans' ones​
• Consider not only one-to-one but also one-to-many interactions, that means being able to handle interruption and quality of interaction​
• Consider short-term as well as long-term interaction and more precisely the social context of the interaction and its implication
• Interdisciplinary work with psychologists and philosophers: ​take inspiration from joint action theory, commitments theory, communication theory,... ​

=> The idea is not to imitate the human-human case but to better understand human’s expectations ​