Demonstration of computer vision system capability in ITER system.
Participant constructs wooden block structure with the robot.
Evaluated two interface widgets for communicating pRAD.
Sketch of participant's workspace for the two experiments.
Demonstration of computer vision system capability in ITER system.
Participant constructs wooden block structure with the robot.
Cobot Interaction Experiments
During graduate school, I investigated how human workers collaborate with the cobot. My colleagues and I developed two experiments, pRAD and Task Interdependence, within an experiment protocol. We used a Universal Robots UR3e cobot for this research. Check out the repo here.
Task Interdependence
The objective of the task interdependence experiment is to investigate three strategies of interdependence (pooled, sequential, reciprocal) for the workers' performance and social perception measures. The human and robot shared a single task; to construct a small magnetic block toy house. Our paper is here.
My contributions were on the technical development of the experiment procedure and on running/monitoring the software during evaluation. Through this project I became familiar with the Universal Robots platform and its visual programming tool, Polyscope.
pRAD
The objective of the pRAD experiment is to investigate the predictive robot attention demand signal for use in cobot operator interfaces. We developed a timeline based interface and a simple timer interface for comparison with the pRAD signal. The operator is responsible for two tasks; inspecting a magnetic block toy house being constructed by the robot and a secondary sorting task.
I was the lead experimenter/author on this project. Our paper is here. As lead experimenter my contributions were both technical and research based.