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Human Intention Inference using Fusion of Gaze and Motion Information
Enabling robots with the ability to quickly and accurately determine the intention of their human counterparts is a very important problem in Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC). The focus of this work is to provide a framework wherein multiple modalities of information, available to the robot through different sensors, are fused to estimate a human\u27s action intent. In this thesis, two human intention estimation schemes are presented. In both cases, human intention is defined as a motion profile associated with a single goal location. The first scheme presents the first human intention estimator to fuse information from pupil tracking data as well as skeletal tracking data during each iteration of an Interacting Multiple Model (IMM) filter in order to predict the goal location of a reaching motion. In the second, two variable structure IMM (VS-IMM) filters, which track gaze and skeletal motion, respectively, are run in parallel and their associated model probabilities fused. This method is advantageous over the first as it can be easily scaled to include more models and provides greater disparity between the most likely model and the other models. For each VS-IMM filter, a model selection algorithm is proposed which chooses the most likely models in each iteration based on physical constraints of the human body. Experimental results are provided to validate the proposed human intention estimation schemes
Human Motion Trajectory Prediction: A Survey
With growing numbers of intelligent autonomous systems in human environments,
the ability of such systems to perceive, understand and anticipate human
behavior becomes increasingly important. Specifically, predicting future
positions of dynamic agents and planning considering such predictions are key
tasks for self-driving vehicles, service robots and advanced surveillance
systems. This paper provides a survey of human motion trajectory prediction. We
review, analyze and structure a large selection of work from different
communities and propose a taxonomy that categorizes existing methods based on
the motion modeling approach and level of contextual information used. We
provide an overview of the existing datasets and performance metrics. We
discuss limitations of the state of the art and outline directions for further
research.Comment: Submitted to the International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR),
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Car that Knows Before You Do: Anticipating Maneuvers via Learning Temporal Driving Models
Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) have made driving safer over the
last decade. They prepare vehicles for unsafe road conditions and alert drivers
if they perform a dangerous maneuver. However, many accidents are unavoidable
because by the time drivers are alerted, it is already too late. Anticipating
maneuvers beforehand can alert drivers before they perform the maneuver and
also give ADAS more time to avoid or prepare for the danger.
In this work we anticipate driving maneuvers a few seconds before they occur.
For this purpose we equip a car with cameras and a computing device to capture
the driving context from both inside and outside of the car. We propose an
Autoregressive Input-Output HMM to model the contextual information alongwith
the maneuvers. We evaluate our approach on a diverse data set with 1180 miles
of natural freeway and city driving and show that we can anticipate maneuvers
3.5 seconds before they occur with over 80\% F1-score in real-time.Comment: ICCV 2015, http://brain4cars.co
Rebellion and Obedience: The Effects of Intention Prediction in Cooperative Handheld Robots
Within this work, we explore intention inference for user actions in the
context of a handheld robot setup. Handheld robots share the shape and
properties of handheld tools while being able to process task information and
aid manipulation. Here, we propose an intention prediction model to enhance
cooperative task solving. The model derives intention from the user's gaze
pattern which is captured using a robot-mounted remote eye tracker. The
proposed model yields real-time capabilities and reliable accuracy up to 1.5s
prior to predicted actions being executed. We assess the model in an assisted
pick and place task and show how the robot's intention obedience or rebellion
affects the cooperation with the robot.Comment: submitted to iROS 2019. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap
with arXiv:1810.0646
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