Proactive Robot Task Selection Given a Human Intention Estimate

Abstract

Intuitive human-robot cooperation presents a challenge to robots since it demands of them a high level of understanding of the human user. Our approach is to estimate the human intention and select and proactively execute an appropriate robot task without requiring an explicit user command. This paper describes the concept and details of our proactive execution module and how it forms an integral part of our intuitive human-robot cooperation system. We present implementation details and the results of an evaluation scenario.