Human Intention Reading by Fuzzy Cognitive Map: A Human-Robot Cooperative Object Carrying Task

Considering the symbiosis between humans and robots in coming years, robots should be able to infer the implicit human intention for the efficient human-robot interaction. This paper focuses on the human-robot cooperation problem among the various fields of human-robot interaction. The human intention reading method using fuzzy cognitive map for the efficient human-robot cooperation is proposed along with the algorithm which decides the appropriate behavior of a robot with the recognized human intention. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated through computer simulation on human-robot cooperative object carrying task.

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