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A PDA-based high-level human-robot interaction
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Date Issued
December 1, 2004
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
This paper describes an innovative architecture for a high-level interaction between a human and a robot via a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA). PDA is a design to provide small and lightweight mobile interaction devices. This interface architecture differs from previous PDA human-robot interfaces in that it uses high-level task decomposition, and adaptive user interface (UI) than teleoperation interfaces. Adaptive user interface typically refers to a flexible interaction strategy between a human and a computer to contribute what is best-suited at the most appropriate time. We extended this concept to human-robot interaction (HRI) and employed the architecture into mobile devices (i.e. PDA and PocketPC). Such devices could provide mobility and durability for robot operations. This work implemented an agent-based high-level human-robot interface on PDA to provide interactions with robots. Four PDA user interfaces were developed: a Map-Based robot control screen, a Laser Range Finder screen, a Sonar Sensor screen, and Camera View with object selection screen. The proposed framework has been implemented to develop a prototypical PDA-based human-robot interaction system. The initial results are encouraging and demonstrate the capabilities of such a human-robot framework.
Citation
2004 IEEE Conference on Robotics Automation and Mechatronics, 1158-1163, 2004