Trick, Susanne ; Koert, Dorothea ; Peters, Jan ; Rothkopf, Constantin A. (2022)
Multimodal Uncertainty Reduction for Intention Recognition in Human-Robot Interaction.
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). Macau, China (03.-08.11.2019)
doi: 10.26083/tuprints-00020552
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Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item |
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Type of entry: | Secondary publication |
Title: | Multimodal Uncertainty Reduction for Intention Recognition in Human-Robot Interaction |
Language: | English |
Date: | 2022 |
Place of Publication: | Darmstadt |
Year of primary publication: | 2022 |
Publisher: | IEEE |
Book Title: | 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) |
Collation: | 8 Seiten |
Event Title: | International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) |
Event Location: | Macau, China |
Event Dates: | 03.-08.11.2019 |
DOI: | 10.26083/tuprints-00020552 |
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Origin: | Secondary publication service |
Abstract: | Assistive robots can potentially improve the quality of life and personal independence of elderly people by supporting everyday life activities. To guarantee a safe and intuitive interaction between human and robot, human intentions need to be recognized automatically. As humans communicate their intentions multimodally, the use of multiple modalities for intention recognition may not just increase the robustness against failure of individual modalities but especially reduce the uncertainty about the intention to be recognized. This is desirable as particularly in direct interaction between robots and potentially vulnerable humans a minimal uncertainty about the situation as well as knowledge about this actual uncertainty is necessary. Thus, in contrast to existing methods, in this work a new approach for multimodal intention recognition is introduced that focuses on uncertainty reduction through classifier fusion. For the four considered modalities speech, gestures, gaze directions and scene objects individual intention classifiers are trained, all of which output a probability distribution over all possible intentions. By combining these output distributions using the Bayesian method Independent Opinion Pool [1] the uncertainty about the intention to be recognized can be decreased. The approach is evaluated in a collaborative human-robot interaction task with a 7-DoF robot arm. The results show that fused classifiers, which combine multiple modalities, outperform the respective individual base classifiers with respect to increased accuracy, robustness, and reduced uncertainty. |
Status: | Postprint |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-205520 |
Classification DDC: | 000 Generalities, computers, information > 004 Computer science |
Divisions: | 20 Department of Computer Science > Intelligent Autonomous Systems |
TU-Projects: | EC/H2020|640554|SKILLS4ROBOTS |
Date Deposited: | 18 Nov 2022 14:15 |
Last Modified: | 24 Mar 2023 08:57 |
URI: | https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/20552 |
PPN: | 502453893 |
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