Natural User Interfaces for Adjustable Autonomy in Robot Control

Abstract

The increasing popularity of robotics in modern society makes interacting and communicating with them of critical importance. Although one of the main goals in robotics research is to develop fully autonomous systems, the ability to control robots in teleoperation applications and provide guidance to them for semiautonomous tasks in a natural and intuitive way is still an important research goal. To this end, adjustable autonomy focuses on exploring the space between fully autonomous and fully telerobotic interfaces and how humans can naturally and easily communicate with robots to support human-robot interaction (HRI) within this spectrum. This special issue presents some of the latest research results in the exploration of natural user interfaces for robotic control and teleoperation.