Introduction to human robot interaction

Abstract

This chapter introduces some general knowledge relative to the broad area of human robot interaction (HRI). The exceptional achievements made by a variety of novel robots have motivated scholars to continually develop the next generation of robots in terms of their safety and dependability. Some background information of HRI are presented in Sect. 1.1 from physical and cognitive perspectives, respectively. Then, an extended HRI classification (used throughout this book) is briefed in Sect. 1.2. Section 1.3 summarises this chapter.