Natural-language dialog is key for an intuitive human–robot interaction. It can be used not
only to express humans' intents but also to communicate instructions for improvement if a …

As the number of robots in our daily surroundings like home, office, restaurants, factory
floors, etc. are increasing rapidly, the development of natural human-robot interaction …

Robot understanding of spatial object relations is key for a symbiotic human-robot
interaction. Understanding the meaning of such relations between objects in a current scene …

This paper proposes a robot assembly planning method by automatically reading the
graphical instruction manuals designed for humans. Essentially, the method generates an …

Many tasks require robots to manipulate objects while satisfying a complex interplay of
spatial and temporal constraints. For instance, a table setting robot first needs to place a …

Understanding spatial relations is a key element for natural human-robot interaction.
Especially, a robot must be able to manipulate a given scene according to a human verbal …

In this paper, we present a novel approach for learning bimanual manipulation actions from
human demonstration by extracting spatial constraints between affordance regions, termed …

In an efficient and flexible human-robot collaborative work environment, a robot team
member must be able to recognize both explicit requests and implied actions from human …

Humans use semantic concepts such as spatial relations between objects to describe
scenes and communicate tasks such as “Put the tea to the right of the cup” or “Move the …

This work implements a joint task architecture for human-robot collaborative task execution
using a hierarchical task planner. This architecture allowed humans and robots to work …