Sumários

Experimental Design for HRI (aula online)

4 novembro 2020, 11:00 Rui Filipe Fernandes Prada

General aspects of designing experiments for HRI

Methodological Aspects of Experimenta Design in HRI
Defining Hypothesis
Dependent and Independent Variables
Reliability, Validity, and Importance
Experimental Designs
Typical Metrics for HRI
Practical aspects of conducting an experiment


Visiting the Robots 2

4 novembro 2020, 09:30 Elmira Yadollahi

The class is similar to the previous week for the remaining students.
The class included seeing demos from different robots.It started with general descriptions of the robots available in GAIPS and plus the following demos
  • Details about Pepper and Astro robot, where the robots communicated and moved around
  • Details about Baxter robot, how to program it using ROS and a cool demo with the robot
  • Details about Emys robot, how to program it using SERA and some robot movements
  • Details about NAO robot, how to program it using ROS, Choreographe and a short demo
  • Details about Cozmo and Vector robots, how to program them using their SDK, python, and ROS and a short demo of the robots.


Motion and Animation of social robots (aula online)

3 novembro 2020, 17:00 Rui Filipe Fernandes Prada

Properties of Motion in Social Robots
Safe Motion in Social Robots
Reading of Robots Motions: Functional, Predictable and Legible Motions
Case Study: Motion for Human-Robot collaboration
Creating Motion by Demonstration
Believability in the Motion for Social Robots


Emotions in Social Robots - part II

28 outubro 2020, 11:00 Rui Filipe Fernandes Prada

Case studies: Creating mood behaviours in a Robot, iCat the AffectiveChess Player, and emotions in non-anthropomorphic robots.


Visiting the Robots

28 outubro 2020, 09:30 Elmira Yadollahi

The class included seeing demos from different robots.

It started with general descriptions of the robots available in GAIPS and plus the following demos
  • Details about Pepper and Astro robot, where the robots communicated and moved around
  • Details about Baxter robot, how to program it using ROS and a cool demo with the robot
  • Details about Emys robot, how to program it using SERA and some robot movements
  • Details about NAO robot, how to program it using ROS, Choreographe and a short demo
  • Details about Cozmo and Vector robots, how to program them using their SDK, python, and ROS and a short demo of the robots.