Towards Human Haptic Gesture Interpretation for Robotic Systems
Physical human-robot interactions (pHRI) are less efficient and communicative than human-human interactions, and a key reason is a lack of informative sense of touch in robotic systems. Interpreting human touch gestures is a nuanced, challenging task with extreme gaps between human and robot capability. Among prior works that demonstrate human touch recognition capability, differences in sensors, gesture classes, feature sets, and classification algorithms yield a conglomerate of non-transferable results and a glaring lack of a standard. To address this gap, this work presents 1) four proposed touch gesture classes that cover an important subset of the gesture characteristics identified in the literature, 2) the collection of an extensive force dataset on a common pHRI robotic arm with only its internal wrist force-torque sensor, and 3) an exhaustive performance comparison of combinations of feature sets and classification algorithms on this dataset. We demonstrate high classification accuracies among our proposed gesture definitions on a test set, emphasizing that neural net-work classifiers on the raw data outperform other combinations of feature sets and algorithms. The accompanying video is here: https://youtu.be/gJPVImNKU68
Code (0)
등록된 구현이 없습니다.
Tasks
ClassificationGeneral ClassificationSimilar Papers 제목 키워드 기반
Otherness as a Quality in Designing Expressive Robotic Touch
Haptic technologies have advanced rapidly, yet exploration of robotic touch remains dominated by replicating realistic environmental cues or hand gestures, which narrows the design space and risks social resistance. This…
A Gesture-Based Visual Learning Model for Acoustophoretic Interactions using a Swarm of AcoustoBots
AcoustoBots are mobile acoustophoretic robots capable of delivering mid-air haptics, directional audio, and acoustic levitation, but existing implementations rely on scripted commands and lack an intuitive interface for …
Touch Speaks, Sound Feels: A Multimodal Approach to Affective and Social Touch from Robots to Humans
Affective tactile interaction constitutes a fundamental component of human communication. In natural human-human encounters, touch is seldom experienced in isolation; rather, it is inherently multisensory. Individuals no…
HapTable: An Interactive Tabletop Providing Online Haptic Feedback for Touch Gestures
We present HapTable; a multimodal interactive tabletop that allows users to interact with digital images and objects through natural touch gestures, and receive visual and haptic feedback accordingly. In our system, hand…
Robotic Affection -- Opportunities of AI-based haptic interactions to improve social robotic touch through a multi-deep-learning approach
Despite the advancement in robotic grasping and dexterity through haptic information, affective social touch, such as handshaking or reassuring stroking, remains a major challenge in Human-Robot-Interaction. This positio…
Robotic Grasping