Human intention reading by fuzzy cognitive map: A human-robot cooperative object carrying task

Abstract

Considering the symbiosis between humans and robots in coming years, robots should be able to infer the implicit human intention for the efficient human-robot interaction. This paper focuses on the human-robot cooperation problem among the various fields of human-robot interaction. The human intention reading method using fuzzy cognitive map for the efficient human-robot cooperation is proposed along with the algorithm which decides the appropriate behavior of a robot with the recognized human intention. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated through computer simulation on human-robot cooperative object carrying task. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.