Abstract
When planning to carry out an activity, a mobile robot has to choose its placement during the activity. Within an environment shared by humans and robots, a social robot should take restrictions deriving from spatial needs of other agents into account. We propose a solution to the problem of obtaining a target placement to perform an activity taking the action possibilities of oneself and others into account. The approach is based on affordance spaces agents can use to perform activities and on socio-spatial reasons that count for or against using such a space.
This research is partially supported by the DFG (German Science Foundation) in IRTG 1247 ‘Cross-modal Interaction in Natural and Artificial Cognitive Systems’ (CINACS). Thanks to Jianwei Zhang for providing access to the PR2 and the robot lab. Thanks to Johanna Seibt and Klaus Robering for discussions about affordance spaces in the context of ‘Making Space’ and ‘Friends by Design’ and to three anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments.
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Lindner, F., Eschenbach, C. (2013). Affordance-Based Activity Placement in Human-Robot Shared Environments. In: Herrmann, G., Pearson, M.J., Lenz, A., Bremner, P., Spiers, A., Leonards, U. (eds) Social Robotics. ICSR 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8239. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02675-6_10
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