EAPSI:Design of Polite Service Robots with Human-Like Approaching Behavior

EAPSI：具有类人接近行为的礼貌服务机器人的设计

• 批准号: 1614074
• 负责人: Ahmed Aly
• 金额: $ 0.54万
• 依托单位: Aly Ahmed A
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Fellowship Award
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-06-15 至 2017-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1614074&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAPSI; Design; Polite; Service; Robots

This award will study how and when robots should approach humans to initiate an interaction. The objective is to have the robots understand who needs their help, and how to make themselves politely available to the user. The methodology of the work is a combination of analysis, research, development and experimentation. The project will be conducted in collaboration with Dr. Chi-Sheng Shih at National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan, where the lab already has the capable robots to achieve the outlined functions. Robotics is an extremely important field that will shape human life in the future. The physical presence of robots and their ability to manipulate their physical environment provides both unlimited potential and extreme challenges. Without developing the user experience with robots, humans will not be able to benefit from their powerful potential. Findings of this study can be used to facilitate the design of different classes of robots such as elderly-care robots or to help children with autism and other needs. The importance of this work stems in the integration of robots in human environments; especially if the humans are regular non-technical people who wouldn?t be sure how to interact or get help from a robot. By designing the proposed model on how to approach humans, an entire subfield of Robotics called Service Robots is improved. Service robots aim to act as receptionists or as points-of-direction in settings such as hotels, malls, etc. This award under the East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes program supports summer research by a U.S. graduate student and is jointly funded by NSF and the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan.

该奖项将研究机器人应该如何以及何时接近人类以启动互动。目标是让机器人了解谁需要他们的帮助，以及如何礼貌地向用户提供帮助。工作方法是分析、研究、开发和实验的结合。该项目将与台湾台北国立台湾大学的施启生博士合作进行，该实验室已经拥有能够实现所述功能的机器人。机器人技术是一个极其重要的领域，将塑造人类未来的生活。机器人的物理存在及其操纵物理环境的能力提供了无限的潜力和极端的挑战。如果不开发机器人的用户体验，人类将无法从其强大的潜力中受益。这项研究的结果可以用来促进不同类别的机器人的设计，如老年人护理机器人或帮助自闭症儿童和其他需要。这项工作的重要性源于机器人在人类环境中的整合;特别是如果人类是普通的非技术人员，谁会呢？我不确定如何与机器人互动或从机器人那里获得帮助。通过设计关于如何接近人类的模型，机器人技术的一个完整的子领域被称为服务机器人。服务机器人旨在充当接待员或在酒店，购物中心等环境中作为方向点。东亚和太平洋夏季研究所计划下的这个奖项支持美国研究生的夏季研究，由NSF和台湾科技部共同资助。