Croft, Elizabeth (The University of British Columbia)

Purpose

This research addresses the challenges of Human-Robot collaboration from experimental, modeling and analytical perspectives; and advances methods for safe, effective and efficient human-robot interaction design. My research has provided novel methods for, and demonstrations of, closed-loop human-robot interaction based on physiologic, haptic and gesture based cues – applied to ‘building block’ scenarios: turn-taking, object passing, resource sharing, command issuance. These human-in-the-loop communication and control methods support the creation and experimental evaluation of human-robot interactions applications in teleoperation, product assembly and collaborative carrying.