Development of Intelligent Behaviors for Social Robots via User-Friendly and Modular Programming Tools

Coronado, Enrique; Mastrogiovanni, Fulvio; Venture, Gentiane

doi:10.1109/arso.2018.8625839

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“…Therefore, the development of alternative robot middlewares and distributed robot programming software is still a trending topic in the robotics community. Examples of some recent ROS alternatives are described in [4,11,[17][18][19]. As happens with almost all software, a solution can difficulty be better suited for all types of applications or desired by all types of users.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…One of the main focuses of NEP is to help in the development of cross-platform End-User Development (EUD), control, and monitoring interfaces [11]. NEP is the main communication tool of the Robot Interface from Zero Experience (RIZE), which is a novel EUD framework for robotics.…”

Section: Children-robot Interaction and End-user Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…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]. RIZE mostly focuses on enabling the easy and intuitive development and integration of real-world robot applications by adult end users.…”

Section: Children-robot Interaction and End-user Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, the use of the Client/Server pattern tends to create less reliable software architectures due to communication issues (e.g., loss of connection and deadlocks) as well as lower performance for data streaming when comparing with the Publish/Subscribe pattern [11,12]. These issues can be trivial for short-term and structured experiments requiring the streaming of a low volume of data at relatively low rate.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Coronado

Venture

2020

Sensors

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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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Section: Children-robot Interaction and End-user Developmentmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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2020

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“…A main concept in EUP is empowered computing -allowing users to personalize systems to their needs and preferences [37]. They are used widely in educational contexts [40,47,65,88], and are used in HRI, home automation, and healthcare contexts [16,17,19,26,29,39,41,49,64,67,73,83,84]. However, these methods are typically procedural, so users require a basic understanding of coding constructs.…”

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Jessie

Kubota

Peterson

Rajendren

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

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JESSIE is a robotic system that enables novice programmers to program social robots by expressing high-level specifications. We employ control synthesis with a tangible front-end to allow users to define complex behavior for which we automatically generate control code. We demonstrate JESSIE in the context of enabling clinicians to create personalized treatments for people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) on a Kuri robot, in little time and without error. We evaluated JESSIE with neuropsychologists who reported high usability and learnability. They gave suggestions for improvement, including increased support for personalization, multi-party programming, collaborative goal setting, and re-tasking robot role post-deployment, which each raise technical and sociotechnical issues in HRI. We exhibit JESSIE's reproducibility by replicating a clinician-created program on a TurtleBot 2. As an open-source means of accessing control synthesis, JESSIE supports reproducibility, scalability, and accessibility of personalized robots for HRI. CCS CONCEPTS • Computer systems organization → Robotic control; • Applied computing → Health informatics.

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Connecting MATLAB/Octave to Perceptual, Cognitive and Control Components for the Development of Intelligent Robotic Systems

Coronado

Rincon

Venture

2020

ROMANSY 23 - Robot Design, Dynamics and Control

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Development of Intelligent Behaviors for Social Robots via User-Friendly and Modular Programming Tools

Cited by 29 publications

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

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

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Connecting MATLAB/Octave to Perceptual, Cognitive and Control Components for the Development of Intelligent Robotic Systems

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