Design of a Human-Centered Robot Framework for End-User Programming and Applications

Coronado, Enrique; Mastrogiovanni, Fulvio; Venture, Gentiane

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-78963-7_56

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“…In many projects performing machine-centered research, the use and installation of complex and academic-oriented software frameworks and Linux-based OS are often considered trivial and preferred tasks. This situation often differs when developers require to work together with non-IT experts that are interested to use robots for creating novel experiences (e.g., designers, social researchers, artists, sellers) [2]. In this article, these novice or general users of computers and robots are referred to as end users [26].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The initial version of NEP was presented in [2] as a user-friendly and only Python 2 programming tool for supporting end-user robot programming interfaces. This beta and discontinued version also enabled the re-use of publishers to ROS 1.0.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Initial prototypes of RIZE have been used for developing several demos and real-world applications supporting end users. Relevant examples are shown in [1,2]. RIZE is a desktop application developed with modern web technologies, such as Javascript, node.js, HTML, CSS, and Vue.js.…”

Section: Children-robot Interaction and End-user Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…More advanced features, such as the design and the Human-Computer Interactions aspects used in the development of this interface (e.g., usability guidelines) are out of the scope of this work and will be reported in a posterior research article in its final and public version. However, some prototypes showing previous designs of the RIZE robot programming environment are shown in [1,2]. Details of the algorithms and the design of relevant visual programming components used to enable end users to develop robot applications are described in [1,2,11].…”

Section: Children-robot Interaction and End-user Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The rapid development of sensors, devices, and algorithms in Robotics is nowadays engaging new users outside its classical industrial and academic technological communities [1,2]. To be adopted by a broader community and accessible to more people, robots must be able to communicate with user's devices (e.g., computers, tablets, smartphones, and smartwatches) for monitoring, programming and control tasks.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Towards IoT-Aided Human–Robot Interaction Using NEP and ROS: A Platform-Independent, Accessible and Distributed Approach

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This article presents the novel Python, C# and JavaScript libraries of Node Primitives (NEP), a high-level, open, distributed, and component-based framework designed to enable easy development of cross-platform software architectures. NEP is built on top of low-level, high-performance and robust sockets libraries (ZeroMQ and Nanomsg) and robot middlewares (ROS 1 and ROS 2). This enables platform-independent development of Human–Robot Interaction (HRI) software architectures. We show minimal code examples for enabling Publish/Subscribe communication between Internet of Things (IoT) and Robotics modules. Two user cases performed outside laboratories are briefly described in order to prove the technological feasibility of NEP for developing real-world applications. The first user case briefly shows the potential of using NEP for enabling the creation of End-User Development (EUD) interfaces for IoT-aided Human–Robot Interaction. The second user case briefly describes a software architecture integrating state-of-art sensory devices, deep learning perceptual modules, and a ROS -based humanoid robot to enable IoT-aided HRI in a public space. Finally, a comparative study showed better latency results of NEP over a popular state-of-art tool (ROS using rosbridge) for connecting different nodes executed in local-host and local area network (LAN).

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confidence: 99%

Section: Children-robot Interaction and End-user Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%