Dynamic Duos: Human-Robot Co-Worker Adaptation in Manufacturing
An ICRA 2024 workshop - May 13 - Yokohama, Japan
Outline
Today’s collaborative robots primarily coexist with their human coworkers rather than interactively collaborating on tasks with mutual dependencies. This implies a huge yet untapped potential for applications of collaborative robots. Actual collaboration provides the opportunity to increase productivity and to reduce mental and physical workload for human workers. At the same time, such collaborations come with challenges such as the need for mutual adaptation. Robots need to be enabled to adapt to the characteristics and states of the human while the human operator is required to learn to effectively collaborate with an adaptive robot.
The RoCoAdapt workshop will facilitate interdisciplinary research on human-aware robotics in the context of manufacturing or similar domains. The full-day workshop will bring together researchers focusing on industrial scenarios, human-robot interaction, organizational psychology, and related fields in AI. We will focus on the technological capabilities and challenges for human-robot collaboration beyond sharing work spaces.
At the workshop, recent progress in human-aware robotics will be discussed. Selected keynote speakers will address the topic from different perspectives and facilitate a joint discussion inspiring and triggering new interdisciplinary research collaborations. Selected contributions will be invited for a special issue at an established journal to increase the outreach of the workshop.
Topics
The list of topics is not exhaustive and contributions addressing other topics that are still in line with the overall aim of the workshop will also be considered. Instructions for contributions can be found here
Modelling of shared tasks
Models for human-robot teaming
Perception for collaborative robotics
Personalization of robot behaviours
Training procedures
Multi-modal HRI
Trust and Transparency
Human-aware motion planning
Ethical and Social Implications
Safety considerations and regulations
Keynote Speakers
Johanna Seibt
School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University
Presentation title:
Forms of Co-Working with Robots
Department of Materials and Production, Aalborg University
Presentation title:
Lessons learned from implementing human-robot collaborations in industrial environments
Bernd Kiefer
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
Presentation title:
Effective and Secure Interactions with Cobots
Rune Søe-Knudsen
Universal Robots
Presentation title:
Robot adoption challenges
Special Issue
After completing the workshop a special issue will be organized in Paladyn Journal of Robotics, Intelligent Agents, and Artificial Intelligence.
Tentative Schedule
9:00 - 9:15 Walk in & Networking
9:15 - 930 Welcome, Introduction
9:30 - 10:15 Dimitris Chrysostomou:
Lessons learned from implementing human-robot collaborations in industrial environments10:15 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 11:15 Rune Søe-Knudsen:
Robot adoption challenges11:15 - 12:00 Anna-Sophie Ulfert-Blank:
Would you trust an AI colleague? Disentangling trust in human-AI collaboration12:00 - 13:30 Lunch & networking
13:30 - 14:00 Bernd Kiefer:
Effective and Secure Interactions with Cobots14:00 - 15:00 Contributed presentations & discussion
Luca Morando and Giuseppe Loianno:
Spatial Assisted Human-Drone Collaborative Navigation and Interaction through Immersive Mixed Reality & Discussion
Marco Faroni, Christian Cella, Andrea M. Zanchettin, and Paolo Rocco:
Safety-aware decision making for collaborative robotics: An integrated approach
Emilia Pietras et al.
Toward Adaptive Robot Behavior for Interdependent Human-Robot Teams
15:00 - 15:20 Coffee Break
15:20 - 16:00 Johanna Seibt:
Forms of Co-Working with Robots16:00 -17:00 Contributed presentations & Discussion
Raquel Salcedo Gil, Anna-Sophie Ulfert-Blank, Pascale Le Blanc, Sonja Rispens
Are you ready to work with robots? A human-centered training intervention for increasing robot use self-efficacy and attitudes toward robot
Merve Alabak
Deviant work behaviors in human-robot collaboration
RoCoAdapt Organizers
Leon Bodenhagen
Contact
SDU Robotics, Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Anna-Sophie Ulfert-Blank
Human Performance Management Group, Department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands