Aurélie Clodic

ELSA (trilateral French-German-Japan project) 2022-2026

Effective Learning of Social Affordances
Description: Affordances are action opportunities directly perceived by an agent to interact with its environment. The concept is gaining interest in robotics, focusing on the potential interactions of the robot with objects rather than the sole physical properties of the environment. In this project, we aim to extend this notion to social affordances which have not been really investigated in robotics. Here we make the hypotheses (1) that robots can learn social affordances in the same way as they learn action affordances in non-social situations; (2) that robots that can autonomously recognize social affordances offered by humans will more efficiently and appropriately respond to the human, thus facilitating human-robot coordination and cooperation.
Website: https://anr.fr/Project-ANR-21-CE33-0019
Publications: https://anr.hal.science/search/index/?q=*&anrProjectReference_s=ANR-21-CE33-0019

ai4hri (trilateral French-German-Japan project) 2020-2024

Description: The goal of the AI4HRI project will be to develop and tightly integrate several crucial AI technologies that will allow social robots to appropriately and skillfully deal with humans around them. The first skill that we believe is currently missing in HRI are knowledge management methods and models, as well as knowledge reasoning abilities that can be used by a robot interacting with humans. These abilities have already been developed for situations where robots act alone. In the scope of AI4HRI we will ascertain the necessary scientific advances that need to be done to be able to take into account interaction with humans. We will answer these fundamental questions: what needs to be implemented successfully in the knowledge management system, which kind of models of the humans the robot should build, and which kind of reasoning abilities the robot should have regarding itself and the human it interacts with.

Website: https://wp.laas.fr/ai4hri/ and https://anr.fr/Projet-ANR-20-IADJ-0006

Publications: https://anr.hal.science/search/index/?q=*&anrProjectReference_s=ANR-20-IADJ-0006

DISCUTER (ANR ASTRID project) 2021-2024
Description: Robots that can learn new concepts and be instructed to carry out novel tasks simply via conversation---as opposed to full demonstration or hard-coding by experts---will be valuable in a wide array of contexts in the future, from performing construction tasks on factory floors to engaging in physical conflict situations. Such robots will need to be able to react on the spot to new information that they acquire either through observation of the external context or through conversation. Developing truly conversational assistants of this sort will require modeling how the meaning of what is said in a conversation, and what is going on in the non-linguistic context in which it is situated, dynamically interacts with a robot’s knowledge base and representation of its own and its interlocutor’s beliefs and goals.

Website: https://anr.fr/Projet-ANR-21-ASIA-0005
Publications: https://anr.hal.science/search/index/?q=*&anrProjectReference_s=ANR-21-ASIA-0005

JointAction4HRI (French ANR project) 2017-2021

Description: What matters to us are the key components and mechanisms underlying joint action, their informational content and how they are linked together, temporarily, hierarchically and meaningfully. Our ambition is to contribute, at the most fundamental level, to the identification and characterization of the ingredients required for the successful realization of a collaborative task in a human-human and a human-robot contexts.
Website: https://wp.laas.fr/jointaction4hri/
Publications: https://anr.hal.science/search/index/?q=*&anrProjectReference_s=ANR-16-CE33-0017

MuMMER- MUltiModal Mall Entertainment Robot (H2020) 2016-2020

Description: MuMMER ("MultiModal Mall Entertainment Robot ») project proposes to address the important and growing market of consumer entertainment robotics by advancing the technologies needed to support this area of robotics. Specifically, we are developping a robot able to engage and interact autonomously and naturally in the dynamic environments of a public shopping mall, providing an engaging and entertaining experience to the general public.
Website: http://mummer-project.eu/
Publications: https://hal.science/search/index/q/*/europeanProjectId_i/185108

RoboErgoSum - Self Aware Robot (French ANR project) - 2013-2017

Description: One of the greatest challenges facing robotics research today is the design of robots able to act autonomously at a cognitive level, and to interact with people in a natural way. RoboErgoSum project intended to study how to develop a robot self awareness and the ability to perform cognitive-level reasoning.
Website: http://roboergosum.isir.upmc.fr/
Publications: https://anr.hal.science/search/index/?q=*&anrProjectReference_s=ANR-12-CORD-0030

Saphari - Safe and Autonomous Physical Human-Aware Robot Interaction (FP7) - 2011-2015
Description: Recent progress in physical Human-Robot Interaction showed that active and safe workspace sharing becomes possible in principle. SAPHARI performed a fundamental paradigm shift in robot development in the sense that the human was the centre of the entire design. The project studied the way to track, understand and predict human motions in a weakly structured dynamic environment in real-time. The project focused on industrial use cases that required contacts and force exchange in human-robot co-work, as well as on professional service scenarios in hospitals, in which a medical staff and an assisting robot interact closely during daily work.
Website: http://www.saphari.eu/
Publications: https://hal.science/search/index/q/*/europeanProjectId_i/88108

MarDi - Man-Robot Dialogue (French National Research Agency project) - 2012-2016
Description: The objective of the MarDi project was to study the human-computer interaction in situated manner. Robots, endowed with perceptions, but also means to act in the environment, allowed the integration of a physical context in the interaction for the machine as well as for humans.

Website: https://anr.fr/Project-ANR-12-CORD-0021

Publications:

Grégoire Milliez, Matthieu Warnier, Aurélie Clodic, Rachid Alami : A framework for endowing an interactive robot with reasoning capabilities about perspective-taking and belief management. IEEE RO-MAN 2014 : 1103-1109

COGNIRON (European FP6 integrated project) 2004-2008
Description: The overall objectives of this project was to study the perceptual, representational, reasoning and learning capabilities of embodied robots in human centred environments. The project has developed methods and technologies for the construction of cognitive robots, able to evolve and grow their capacities in close interaction with humans in an open-ended fashion.
Website: http://www.cogniron.org/final/Home.php ; http://www.laas.fr/robots/jido
Publications:
Aurélie Clodic, Hung Cao, Samir Alili, Vincent Montreuil, Rachid Alami, Raja Chatila (2009) SHARY: A Supervision System Adapted to Human-Robot Interaction. In: Khatib O., Kumar V., Pappas G.J. (eds) Experimental Robotics. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, vol 54. Springer.
Aurélie Clodic, Vincent Montreuil, Rachid Alami, Raja Chatila A decisional framework for autonomous robots interacting with humans. 14th IEEE Int. Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN’05), Nashville (USA), August 2005.
Rachid Alami, Aurélie Clodic, Vincent Montreuil, Emrah Akin Sisbot, Raja Chatila Task planning for human-robot interaction. Invited paper. Smart Objects & Ambient Intelligence (sOc- EUSAI'2005), Grenoble (France), October 2005.
Emrah Akin Sisbot, Aurélie Clodic, Luis Felipe Marin Urias, Matthias Fontmarty, Ludovic Brethes, Rachid Alami Implementing a human-aware robot system. 15th IEEE Int. Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN'06), Hatfield (GB), September 2006
Aurélie Clodic, Rachid Alami, V. Montreuil, S. Li, B. Wrede, A. Swadzba A study of interaction between dialog and decision for human-robot collaborative task achievement. IEEE Int. Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN’07), Jeju Island (Korea), August 2007.

Vincent Montreuil, Aurélie Clodic, Maxime Ransan, Rachid Alami Planning human centered robot activities. IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC’07), Montréal (Canada), October 2007.

HR+ (French robotics program project) 2002-2005
Description: Explore human-robot interaction in the context of training an autonomous museum guide
Website: http://www.laas.fr/robots/rackham
Publications:
Aurélie Clodic, Sara Fleury, Rachid Alami, Matthieu Herrb, Raja Chatila Supervision and interaction. Analysis from an autonomous tour-guide robot deployment. 12th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR 2005), Seattle (USA), July 2005.
Aurélie Clodic et al. Rackham: an interactive robot-guide 15th IEEE Int. Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, invited paper (RO-MAN'06), Hatfield (GB), 2006.ici les projets