Human–Robot Interaction

By Thomas B. Sheridan. Hum. Factors, 2016

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Objective: The current status of human–robot interaction (HRI) is reviewed, and key current research challenges for the human factors community are described. Background: Robots have evolved from continuous human-controlled master–slave servomechanisms for handling nuclear waste to a broad range of robots incorporating artificial intelligence for many applications and under human supervisory control. Methods: This mini-review describes HRI developments in four application areas and what are the challenges for human factors research. Results: In addition to a plethora of research papers, evidence of success is manifest in live demonstrations of robot capability under various forms of human control. Conclusions: HRI is a rapidly evolving field. Specialized robots under human teleoperation have proven successful in hazardous environments and medical application, as have specialized telerobots under human supervisory control for space and repetitive industrial tasks. Research in areas of self-driving cars, intimate collaboration with humans in manipulation tasks, human control of humanoid robots for hazardous environments, and social interaction with robots is at initial stages. The efficacy of humanoid general-purpose robots has yet to be proven. Applications: HRI is now applied in almost all robot tasks, including manufacturing, space, aviation, undersea, surgery, rehabilitation, agriculture, education, package fetch and delivery, policing, and military operations.

Subfields: Mechanical Engineering, Social Psychology

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Artificial Intelligence in Advanced Manufacturing: Current Status and Future Outlook (2020, unknown): “Planning [77,78] comprises three elements and activities: system modeling, setting and meeting objectives, and formulating strategies.”
From ‘automation’ to ‘autonomy’: the importance of trust repair in human–machine interaction (2018, background): “Finally, to further the discussion regarding these new autonomous systems (Endsley 2017a; Kaber 2017a; Sheridan 2016; Woods 2016).”
From high-touch to high-tech: COVID-19 drives robotics adoption (2020, background): “Based on the nature of the application, (Sheridan, 2016) further classified robots interacting with humans into “ telerobot, ” “ teleoperator, ” and “ social robot ” (Table 1).”
The current state and future outlook of rescue robotics (2019, background): “Most research in the field of human–robot interaction (HRI) for SAR applications is focused on enhancing teleoperation, which is the dominant approach for semiautonomous field‐ready robots (Sheridan, 2016).”