Follow Me! Wie Roboter Menschen führen sollen

Reinhardt, Jakob; Schmidtler, Jonas; Körber, Moritz; Bengler, Klaus

doi:10.1007/s41449-016-0039-2

Cited by 7 publications

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“…(1) The forward speed of the robot during the approach towards the door for human interpretation in robot proximity [5,46]. Accordingly, we aimed to achieve human-like speeds for an indoor environment.…”

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confidence: 99%

Back-off: Evaluation of Robot Motion Strategies to Facilitate Human-Robot Spatial Interaction

Reinhardt¹,

Prasch²,

Bengler³

2020

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Standstill behavior by a robot is deemed to be ineffective and inefficient to convey a robot’s intention to yield priority to another party in spatial interaction. Instead, robots could convey their intention and, thus, their next action via motion. We developed a back-off movement to communicate the intention of yielding priority to pedestrians at bottlenecks. To evaluate human sensory perception and subjective legibility, the back-off is compared to three other motion strategies in a video study with N = 167 interviewees at the university and public spaces, where it excels regarding legibility. Implemented in a real encounter, objective motion behavior of N = 78 participants as a reaction to a stop & wait strategy, and two versions of back-off (short and long) shows an improvement of the pedestrians’ efficiency in the second encounter with the robot’s short back-off version compared to the stop strategy. Eventually, in the third encounter with all motion strategies, interaction causes only a small time consumption still required by the cognitive process of perceiving an object in the visual field. Hence, the design of kinematic parameters, back-off path and time, exhibits the potential to increase the fluency of an interaction with robots at bottlenecks.

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confidence: 99%

Back-off: Evaluation of Robot Motion Strategies to Facilitate Human-Robot Spatial Interaction

Reinhardt¹,

Prasch²,

Bengler³

2020

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“…The robot can stop when turning and rotate on the spot to minimize errors with the route to minimize the error from the route. However, according to Reinhardt et al [47], a person following a robot does not like the robot to make small turns. Therefore, the robot needs to move along the route smoothly and quickly.…”

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Development of a Personal Guide Robot That Leads a Guest Hand-in-Hand While Keeping a Distance

Wakabayashi,

Hiroi,

Miyawaki

et al. 2024

Sensors

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This paper proposes a novel tour guide robot, “ASAHI ReBorn”, which can lead a guest by hand one-on-one while maintaining a proper distance from the guest. The robot uses a stretchable arm interface to hold the guest’s hand and adjusts its speed according to the guest’s pace. The robot also follows a given guide path accurately using the Robot Side method, a robot navigation method that follows a pre-defined path quickly and accurately. In addition, a control method is introduced that limits the angular velocity of the robot to avoid the robot’s quick turn while guiding the guest. We evaluated the performance and usability of the proposed robot through experiments and user studies. The tour-guiding experiment revealed that the proposed method that keeps distance between the robot and the guest using the stretchable arm enables the guests to look around the exhibits compared with the condition where the robot moved at a constant velocity.

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