Towards a Task-Aware Proactive Sociable Robot Based on Multi-state Perspective-Taking
International Journal of Social RoboticsPublished 27 February 2013
Amit Kumar Pandey, Muhammad Ali, Rachid Alami
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This paper enables robots, equipped with visuo-spatial perspective-taking capabilities, to behave proactively based on reasoning ‘where’ its human partner might perform a particular task with different effort levels to enrich multi-modal interaction and cooperation capabilities of the robot.
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