Demo Fabrice Prigent pour Capitoul

Authors: G. Sarthou, A. Mayima, G. Buisan, K. Belhassein, A. Clodic

Assessing robotic architecture for Human-Robot Interaction can be challenging due to the number of features a robot has to endow to perform an acceptable interaction. While everyday-inspired tasks are interesting as reflecting a realistic use of such robots, they often contain a lot of unknown and uncontrolled conditions and specific robot behavior can be hard to test. In this paper, we propose a new psychology-inspired task, gathering perspective-taking, planning, knowledge representation with theory of mind, manipulation, and communication. Along with a precise description of the task allowing its replication, we present a cognitive robot architecture able to perform it in its nominal cases. We finally suggest some challenges and evaluations for the Human-Robot Interaction research community, all derived from this easy-to-replicate task.

Accepted in the 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2021)

For a robot to interact with humans in a given environment, a key need is to understand its environment in terms of the objects composing it, the other agents acting in it, and the relations between all of them. The capability is often called the ...