A Novel Task Language for Natural Interaction in Human-Robot Systems for Warehouse Logistics

Specification, stochastic modeling and analysis of interactive service robotic applications

“…As per Section 7.2, the literature is rich with DSLs for the robotic domain, but proposals targeting interactive applications are lacking. Specifically, existing works target the manufacturing sector [98,99] or very specific tasks from the healthcare setting [100], whereas the service sector calls for more general-purpose primitives to define how robots and humans interact. Other works propose a high-level specification of mission patterns for multi-robot teams in environments (possibly) populated by humans [46,12], but this has not been attempted for applications where humans are actively involved as in the domain of this framework.…”

“…Gavran et al [98] introduce the Tool DSL to specify collaborative assembly tasks in the manufacturing sector through a textual notation that is accessible to non-experts. Detzner et al [99] present LoTLan, a DSL to describe material flow processes in warehouses. The work consists of a procedure to map human vocal requests (e.g., "I need an item") to common semantics, identifying who has to perform which action, and finally LoTLan primitives, which are then converted into plans for AGVs.…”

Logistics Work, Ergonomics and Social Sustainability: Empirical Musculoskeletal System Strain Assessment in Retail Intralogistics

“…Yu and Xu review the influencing factors of robot acceptance from three aspects: robot factors, human factors, and human-robot interaction factors [39]. Datzner et al present a novel task description language for human-robot interaction in warehouse logistics to let human workers interact with robots naturally [40].…”