Coordinating human-robot collaboration by EEG-based human intention prediction and vigilance control
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Coordinating human-robot collaboration by EEG-based human intention prediction and vigilance control. / Lyu, Jianzhi; Maýe, Alexander; Görner, Michael; Ruppel, Philipp; Engel, Andreas K; Zhang, Jianwei.
in: FRONT NEUROROBOTICS, Jahrgang 16, 1068274, 2022.Publikationen: SCORING: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift/Zeitung › SCORING: Zeitschriftenaufsatz › Forschung › Begutachtung
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T1 - Coordinating human-robot collaboration by EEG-based human intention prediction and vigilance control
AU - Lyu, Jianzhi
AU - Maýe, Alexander
AU - Görner, Michael
AU - Ruppel, Philipp
AU - Engel, Andreas K
AU - Zhang, Jianwei
N1 - Copyright © 2022 Lyu, Maýe, Görner, Ruppel, Engel and Zhang.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - In human-robot collaboration scenarios with shared workspaces, a highly desired performance boost is offset by high requirements for human safety, limiting speed and torque of the robot drives to levels which cannot harm the human body. Especially for complex tasks with flexible human behavior, it becomes vital to maintain safe working distances and coordinate tasks efficiently. An established approach in this regard is reactive servo in response to the current human pose. However, such an approach does not exploit expectations of the human's behavior and can therefore fail to react to fast human motions in time. To adapt the robot's behavior as soon as possible, predicting human intention early becomes a factor which is vital but hard to achieve. Here, we employ a recently developed type of brain-computer interface (BCI) which can detect the focus of the human's overt attention as a predictor for impending action. In contrast to other types of BCI, direct projection of stimuli onto the workspace facilitates a seamless integration in workflows. Moreover, we demonstrate how the signal-to-noise ratio of the brain response can be used to adjust the velocity of the robot movements to the vigilance or alertness level of the human. Analyzing this adaptive system with respect to performance and safety margins in a physical robot experiment, we found the proposed method could improve both collaboration efficiency and safety distance.
AB - In human-robot collaboration scenarios with shared workspaces, a highly desired performance boost is offset by high requirements for human safety, limiting speed and torque of the robot drives to levels which cannot harm the human body. Especially for complex tasks with flexible human behavior, it becomes vital to maintain safe working distances and coordinate tasks efficiently. An established approach in this regard is reactive servo in response to the current human pose. However, such an approach does not exploit expectations of the human's behavior and can therefore fail to react to fast human motions in time. To adapt the robot's behavior as soon as possible, predicting human intention early becomes a factor which is vital but hard to achieve. Here, we employ a recently developed type of brain-computer interface (BCI) which can detect the focus of the human's overt attention as a predictor for impending action. In contrast to other types of BCI, direct projection of stimuli onto the workspace facilitates a seamless integration in workflows. Moreover, we demonstrate how the signal-to-noise ratio of the brain response can be used to adjust the velocity of the robot movements to the vigilance or alertness level of the human. Analyzing this adaptive system with respect to performance and safety margins in a physical robot experiment, we found the proposed method could improve both collaboration efficiency and safety distance.
U2 - 10.3389/fnbot.2022.1068274
DO - 10.3389/fnbot.2022.1068274
M3 - SCORING: Journal article
C2 - 36531919
VL - 16
JO - FRONT NEUROROBOTICS
JF - FRONT NEUROROBOTICS
SN - 1662-5218
M1 - 1068274
ER -