RASL, Olin Hall, # 518

Vanderbilt University

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Implicit Human-Robot Co-operation Using Affect detection

This project involves experiments on implicit communication between a human and robot wherein the robot detects and recognizes affect (emotions) in its human companion and changes its task sequence to accommodate a suitable response.

• Rani, P, Sims, J, Brackin, R, and N. Sarkar, “Online Stress Detection using Psychophysiological Signal for Implicit Human-Robot Cooperation,” Robotica, Vol. 20, No. 6, pp. 673-686, 2002.

• P. Rani, N. Sarkar, C. Smith, and L. Kirby, “Anxiety Detecting Robotic Systems – Towards Implicit Human-Robot Collaboration,” in Robotica, Vol. 22, Issue. 1, pp. 85-95, 2004.

• (Under Review) Rani, P., Sarkar, N., Smith, C., A., Adams, J., A., “Affective Communication for Implicit Human-Machine Interaction”, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics.

       Conferences

• Rani, P., Sarkar, N., Smith, C., "Affect-Sensitive Human-Robot Cooperation –Theory and Experiments", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp: 2382-2387, Taiwan, September 2003.

• Rani, P., Sarkar, N., Smith, “Anxiety Detection for Implicit Human-Robot Collaboration”, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man & Cybernetics, Washington D.C., pp: 4896-4903, October 2003.

• Chai, P, Rani, P, and N. Sarkar, “An innovative high-level human-robot interactions foe disabled persons,” To appear in the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, New Orleans, USA, April 2004.

• Sarkar, N., Sims, J., Vashishtha, D., Rani, P., Brackin, “Stress Detection for Implicit Human-Robot Cooperation”, World Automation Congress, Orlando, USA, June 2002

• Erol, D, Rani P, Brackin, RL, Sarkar, MS,  and Sarkar, N, "Robotic Aid to People with Disability By Means of an Innovative Communication Paradigm", 9th Mechatronics Forum International Conference (Mechatronics 2004) , September 2004, Ankara, Turkey

• Rani, P., Sarkar, N., "Emotion-Sensitive Robots- A New Paradigm for Human-Robot Interaction", IEEE-RAS/RSJ International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2004), November 10-12, 2004, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

• Rani, P., Sarkar, N., "Operator Engagement Detection and Robot Behavior Adaptation in Human-Robot Interaction", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, April 2005, Barcelona, Spain.

• Rani, P., Sarkar, N., "Maintaining Optimal Challenge in Computer Games Through Real-Time Physiological Feedback", 11th Human Computer Interaction International, July 2005, Las Vegas, USA.

• Liu, C, Rani, P., Sarkar, N., "Comparison of Machine Learning Techniques for Affect Detection in Human Robot Interaction," IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, August 2005, Canada.

• Rani, P., Sarkar, M., Brackin, R., Sarkar, N., "Semi-Autonomous Human-Robot Interaction Using EMG-Based Modified Morse Code", to appear in the Workshop on Multi-point interaction in Robotics and Virtual Reality, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, New Orleans, USA, April 2004. (To appear as a chapter in  Springer-Verlag Tract on Advanced Robotics)

• Adams, J, Rani, P, Sarkar, N, “Mixed Initiative Interaction and Robotic Systems”, Workshop on Supervisory Control of Learning and Adaptive Systems, to be held at the Nineteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-04), San Jose, CA, July, 2004.

Graduate Research day Presentation

RAS/IFRR Summer School on "Human-Robot Interaction" July 19-23, 2004

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Robotics and Autonomous Systems Laboratory

Dr. Nilanjan Sarkar