Engaging with robotic swarms: commands from expressive motion

St-Onge, David, Côté-Allard, Ulysse, Glette, Kyrre, Gosselin, Benoit et Beltrame, Giovanni. 2019. « Engaging with robotic swarms: commands from expressive motion ». ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI), vol. 8, nº 2.

Prévisualisation

PDF St-Onge D 2019 18902.pdf - Version acceptée Licence d'utilisation : Tous les droits réservés aux détenteurs du droit d'auteur. Télécharger (3MB) | Prévisualisation

Résumé

In recent years, researchers have explored human body posture and motion to control robots in more natural ways. These interfaces require the ability to track the body movements of the user in three dimensions. Deploying motion capture systems for tracking tends to be costly and intrusive and requires a clear line of sight, making them ill adapted for applications that need fast deployment. In this article, we use consumer-grade armbands, capturing orientation information and muscle activity, to interact with a robotic system through a state machine controlled by a body motion classifier. To compensate for the low quality of the information of these sensors, and to allow a wider range of dynamic control, our approach relies on machine learning. We train our classifier directly on the user to recognize (within minutes) which physiological state his or her body motion expresses. We demonstrate that on top of guaranteeing faster field deployment, our algorithm performs better than all comparable algorithms, and we detail its configuration and the most significant features extracted. As the use of large groups of robots is growing, we postulate that their interaction with humans can be eased by our approach. We identified the key factors to stimulate engagement using our system on 27 participants, each creating his or her own set of expressive motions to control a swarm of desk robots. The resulting unique dataset is available online together with the classifier and the robot control scripts.

Type de document:	Article publié dans une revue, révisé par les pairs
Professeur:	Professeur St-Onge, David
Affiliation:	Autres
Date de dépôt:	03 juill. 2019 21:36
Dernière modification:	30 juill. 2019 18:58
URI:	https://espace2.etsmtl.ca/id/eprint/18902

Actions (Authentification requise)

Dernière vérification avant le dépôt