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Interactive Robot Programming This project is no longer active. Head: Pradeep Khosla Contact: John Dolan (jmd@cs.cmu.edu) Mailing address: Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Associated center: VASC Associated lab/group: Advanced Mechatronics Lab For more information, see this project's homepage.

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Project Description

As robots enter the human environment and come in contact with inexperienced users, they need to be able to interact with users in intuitive fashion - keyboard and mouse are no longer acceptable as the only input modalities. Humans should be able to communicate with robots using methods as similar as possible to the concise, rich, and diverse means they use to communicate with one another. Cooperation among humans is multi-modal and often intuitive, whereas current methods of cooperation among robots and between robots and humans, whether for programming or control, are generally highly specified and inflexible. Cooperation between human and a robot system involves communication of intent through available mode of interactions. The Interactive Robot Programming group in the AML works towards a comprehensive human-machine interface that allows non-experts to conveniently compose software for and cooperate with robot systems.

Past members

	Name	Title	Email Address
	Kevin Dixon	PhD Student, ECE	krd@andrew.cmu.edu
	John Dolan	Senior Systems Scientist	jmd@cs.cmu.edu
	Soshi Iba	PhD Student, RI
	Pradeep Khosla	Dean and Philip and Marsha Dowd Prof ECE, RI/ECE	pkk@ece.cmu.edu
	James Morrow	PhD Student, RI
	Anne Murray	PhD Student, ECE
	Bradley Nelson	PhD Student, RI
	Richard Voyles	PhD Student, RI