The human agent: a work in progress toward human-humanoid interaction

Abstract

At the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory of the Center for Intelligent Systems at Vanderbilt University, we have been developing a humanoid system called ISAC, (Intelligent Soft-Arm Control), over the past several years. As people work with a humanoid system, the interaction should be natural and robust. Our framework for human-humanoid interaction (HHI) considers various aspects of HHI and the paper presents information about the development of one key element of this system: the human agent.