Pitch Colloquia 2022 | Niccolò Lucci

Increasing Human-Robot Awareness for Better Cooperation in a Collaborative Environment
Niccolò Lucci
This research aims at making the human-robot interactions more integrated both from a robot programming point of view, making the robot intuitive to use, and from a collaborative point of view, making the collaboration as natural and seamless as possible. This is possible thanks to a complete digitalization of all the components of the workspace: the robot, the human, the manipulated objects, and the executed tasks. It is indeed paramount to provide more awareness to the robotic agent both about the environment it is in (human, objects, ...) and the task it needs to perform (programming). Consequently, it is necessary to gather all possible information coming from the workspace or human task demonstrations and digitalise them to enhance the robot’s perception. In light of the above, this research project is focused on creating an architecture that can make human-robot collaboration easier to achieve and, at the same time, gives a straightforward interface to reprogram the robot to perform a different task.