Cognitive Models of Decision Making Processes for Human-Robot Interaction

Nowadays, many robotic applications require robots making their own decisions and adapting to different conditions and users. This work presents a biologically inspired decision making system, based on drives, motivations, wellbeing, and self-learning, that governs the behavior of the robot considering both internal and external circumstances. In this paper we state the biological foundations that drove the design of the system, as well as how it has been implemented in a real robot. Following a homeostatic approach, the ultimate goal of the robot is to keep its wellbeing as high as possible. In order to achieve this goal, our decision making system uses learning mechanisms to assess the best action to execute at any moment. Considering that the proposed system has been implemented in a real social robot, human-robot interaction is of paramount importance and the learned behaviors of the robot are oriented to foster the interactions with the user. The operation of the system is shown in a scenario where the robot Mini plays games with a user. In this context, we have included a robust user detection mechanism tailored for short distance interactions. After the learning phase, the robot has learned how to lead the user to interact with it in a natural way.

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Affective Goal and Task Selection for Social Robots

Handbook of Research on Synthetic Emotions and Sociable Robotics ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-354-8.ch005 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 74-87 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

Matthias Scheutz ◽

Paul Schermerhorn

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Real World ◽

Social Robots ◽

Human Robot Interaction ◽

Robot Interaction ◽

Task Selection ◽

Resource Limitations ◽

Effective Decision ◽

Effective Decision Making ◽

Selection Of

Effective decision-making under real-world conditions can be very difficult as purely rational methods of decision-making are often not feasible or applicable. Psychologists have long hypothesized that humans are able to cope with time and resource limitations by employing affective evaluations rather than rational ones. In this chapter, we present the distributed integrated affect cognition and reflection architecture DIARC for social robots intended for natural human-robot interaction and demonstrate the utility of its human-inspired affect mechanisms for the selection of tasks and goals. Specifically, we show that DIARC incorporates affect mechanisms throughout the architecture, which are based on “evaluation signals” generated in each architectural component to obtain quick and efficient estimates of the state of the component, and illustrate the operation and utility of these mechanisms with examples from human-robot interaction experiments.

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A computational model of human decision making and learning for assessment of co-adaptation in neuro-adaptive human-robot interaction

2019 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC) ◽

10.1109/smc.2019.8913872 ◽

2019 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Stefan K. Ehrlich ◽

Gordon Cheng

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Computational Model ◽

Human Robot Interaction ◽

Robot Interaction ◽

Human Decision

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Brain Signals Classification Based on Fuzzy Lattice Reasoning

Mathematics ◽

10.3390/math9091063 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (9) ◽

pp. 1063

Author(s):

Eleni Vrochidou ◽

Chris Lytridis ◽

Christos Bazinas ◽

George A. Papakostas ◽

Hiroaki Wagatsuma ◽

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Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Ad Hoc ◽

Nearest Neighbor ◽

Human Robot Interaction ◽

Visual Signals ◽

K Nearest Neighbor ◽

Robot Interaction ◽

Brain Signals ◽

Fuzzy Lattice ◽

Fuzzy Order

Cyber-Physical System (CPS) applications including human-robot interaction call for automated reasoning for rational decision-making. In the latter context, typically, audio-visual signals are employed. Τhis work considers brain signals for emotion recognition towards an effective human-robot interaction. An ElectroEncephaloGraphy (EEG) signal here is represented by an Intervals’ Number (IN). An IN-based, optimizable parametric k Nearest Neighbor (kNN) classifier scheme for decision-making by fuzzy lattice reasoning (FLR) is proposed, where the conventional distance between two points is replaced by a fuzzy order function (σ) for reasoning-by-analogy. A main advantage of the employment of INs is that no ad hoc feature extraction is required since an IN may represent all-order data statistics, the latter are the features considered implicitly. Four different fuzzy order functions are employed in this work. Experimental results demonstrate comparably the good performance of the proposed techniques.

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Affective Goal and Task Selection for Social Robots

Social Computing ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-984-7.ch140 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 2150-2163

Author(s):

Matthias Scheutz ◽

Paul Schermerhorn

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Real World ◽

Social Robots ◽

Human Robot Interaction ◽

Robot Interaction ◽

Task Selection ◽

Resource Limitations ◽

Effective Decision ◽

Effective Decision Making ◽

Selection Of

Effective decision-making under real-world conditions can be very difficult as purely rational methods of decision-making are often not feasible or applicable. Psychologists have long hypothesized that humans are able to cope with time and resource limitations by employing affective evaluations rather than rational ones. In this chapter, we present the distributed integrated affect cognition and reflection architecture DIARC for social robots intended for natural human-robot interaction and demonstrate the utility of its human-inspired affect mechanisms for the selection of tasks and goals. Specifically, we show that DIARC incorporates affect mechanisms throughout the architecture, which are based on “evaluation signals” generated in each architectural component to obtain quick and efficient estimates of the state of the component, and illustrate the operation and utility of these mechanisms with examples from human-robot interaction experiments.

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Developing an Educational and Research Human Robot Interaction Environment for a Mechanical Finger/Hand

Volume 4A: Dynamics, Vibration, and Control ◽

10.1115/imece2015-52305 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

Christopher E. Ábrego ◽

Panos S. Shiakolas ◽

Michael R. Sobhy

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Success Rate ◽

Open Loop ◽

Human Robot Interaction ◽

Environmental Data ◽

Work Environments ◽

Post Processing ◽

Robot Interaction ◽

Threshold Test ◽

Human Operators

Human robot interaction (HRI) has become a growing area of study due to the increasing application of robots in work environments and daily life and interact and work in tandem with human operators. This synergy between humans and robots have expanded human endeavors and motivated neoteric and prospective areas of robotics research. The objective of this research is to develop an environment where both researchers and students can experience and experiment with different interaction modes with a robotic finger and hand. The acquisition and the post processing of environmental data from the hardware allow the user to envisage decision making algorithms. The present HRI environments have both closed and open loop controlled interaction modes for research and demonstration purposes. The interaction modes include direct open loop manipulation, force threshold interaction, voice commands, and variable force close. This additionally demonstrates the ease in functionality and augmentation in the testbed. As a result of speech recognition test, the testbed has a 79% success rate and has a 90% success rate in the force threshold test. The manuscript will also describe how certain actions are performed based on Prime States. An overview of the state algorithms are described as well as decision making diagrams.

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Cognitively Intelligent Models for Human-Robot Interaction with MIRob

Bolgoda Plains ◽

10.31705/bprm.2021.4 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 01 (01) ◽

pp. 04-06

Author(s):

Chapa Sirithunga ◽

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Buddhika Jayasekara ◽

Keyword(s):

Social Environment ◽

Cognitive Models ◽

Human Robot Interaction ◽

Robot Interaction ◽

Intelligent Models ◽

The Brain

This research explores how a robot should gather knowledge upon a scenario between a robot and its user and then generate appropriate intelligent responses towards its user. Therefore, cognitive models were developed to act as a robot’s intelligence or the brain to make situation-specific decisions. Such insightful decisions will help the robot act in a social environment without disturbing its user or other humans around.

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Design-Centered HRI Governance for Healthcare Robots

Journal of Healthcare Engineering ◽

10.1155/2022/3935316 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 2022 ◽

pp. 1-8

Author(s):

Yueh-Hsuan Weng ◽

Yasuhisa Hirata

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Human Robot Interaction ◽

Robotic Systems ◽

Privacy Risk ◽

Robot Interaction ◽

Daily Lives ◽

Ethical Concerns ◽

Recent Developments ◽

And Robotics

Recent developments have shown that not only are AI and robotics growing more sophisticated, but also these fields are evolving together. The applications that emerge from this trend will break current limitations and ensure that robotic decision making and functionality are more autonomous, connected, and interactive in a way which will support people in their daily lives. However, in areas such as healthcare robotics, legal and ethical concerns will arise as increasingly advanced intelligence functions are incorporated into robotic systems. Using a case study, this paper proposes a unique design-centered approach which tackles the issue of data protection and privacy risk in human-robot interaction.

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