Human-approaching trajectories for a person-sized balancing robot
Workshop Paper, IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO '14), pp. 20 - 25, September, 2014
Abstract
This paper explores how a large, dynamic robot should approach humans in a collaborative task. We conducted a design study to understand the experience of collaboration and the perceived effort in collaboration. In the study, 15 participants collaborated with the ballbot, a heavy, dynamically-stable, human-sized mobile robot. The ballbot executed approach trajectories, reaching speeds up to 0.6 m/s. Participants found the experience of collaboration to be positive, and we discovered that a curved trajectory was not perceived to add effort to the collaboration.
BibTeX
@workshop{Shomin-2014-122033,author = {Michael Shomin and Bhaskar Vaidya and Ralph Hollis and Jodi Forlizzi},
title = {Human-approaching trajectories for a person-sized balancing robot},
booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO '14)},
year = {2014},
month = {September},
pages = {20 - 25},
}
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