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Human-Humanoid collaboration: the next industrial revolution?<\/h1>\n

\"\"<\/a>Organizers<\/h3>\n

Serena Ivaldi<\/a>, Jan Babic<\/a>, Francesco Nori<\/a>, Morteza Azad<\/a><\/p>\n

When<\/strong>: November 15th, 2017<\/p>\n

Where<\/strong>:\u00a0HUMANOIDS 2017<\/a>, The Rep Theatre, Birmingham (UK), Room: REP Suite 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

Objectives<\/h2>\n

In the last years there has been a proliferation of applications for collaborative robots in manufacturing and industry, from bimanual cooperation in assembly with cobots<\/em> (i.e., industrial manipulators for collaboration) to physical assistance with exoskeletons. These applications have driven research in many fundamental topics for collaboration, such as shared task allocation, synchronization and coordination, control of contacts and physical interaction, role estimation and adaptive role allocation during collaboration, learning by demonstrations, safe control, etc. All the advances in the state of the art in these topics contribute to the success of the \u201cso called\u201d Industry 4.0, whose elite platforms are essentially cobots<\/em> and exoskeletons.<\/p>\n

At the same time, the research community in humanoids has made tremendous progresses in the whole-body control area. Now we can see humanoid robots, such as iCub, Talos or Atlas, that are torque-controlled and able to perform complex highly-dynamic tasks in presence of unforeseen physical interactions with humans or their environment. The DRC showed that humanoids can manipulate objects and tools, walk and even drive cars. In the European project Comanoid the humanoid HRP4 is performing manipulation task in complex industrial environment. Will the control be the same when they collaborate with humans? And what are the challenges that we face if we want them to integrate cobots<\/em> and exoskeletons as collaborative robots for industry? Is the prior experience with such platforms sufficient for realizing collaborative applications or are there new problems that are typical of the humanoid platforms? Besides the obvious control problems, what will be the reaction and adaption of humans when collaborating with humanoids?<\/p>\n

These questions and many others are addressed in some European projects, such as An.Dy or SecondHands, where humanoids are envisioned as future collaborators, i.e., capable of providing assistance and helping human workers. To realize such applications, the humanoids need to control precisely the physical interaction with the humans, and be \u201caware\u201d of the human status. The main requirements are valid for exoskeletons and cobots<\/em>, but humanoids make the equation much more complex, for two main reasons.
\nFirst, controlling the physical interaction with humans is a secondary problem that adds to controlling already their own balance. Second, the anthropomorphic appearance, combined with interacting on tasks designed for humans, can facilitate the human collaborators, but at the same time the behavior of human collaborators may vary a lot, exhibiting reactions that we may have never not observes in the case of interaction with an industrial manipulator.<\/p>\n

This workshop aims at drawing the state-of-the-art for collaborative humanoid robots, and discussing the current challenges that the research community faces for realizing the future collaborative humanoids for industry. <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>The workshop will consists of invited talks (30 min) and presentations from selected contributions after a call for papers\/posters. The workshop will close with a panel discussion.<\/p>\n

Topics of interest<\/h2>\n