Enhancing Robot Perception Using Human Teammates

In robotics research, perception is one of the most challenging tasks. In contrast to existing approaches that rely only on computer vision, we propose an alternative method for improving perception by learning from human teammates. To evaluate, we apply this idea to a door detection problem. A set of preliminary experiments has been completed using software agents with real vision data. Our results demonstrate that information inferred from teammate observations significantly improves the perception precision.

Authors

• Jean Oh
• Arne Suppe Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Anthony Stentz
• Martial Hebert

Keywords

• Robot perception
• robot-human hybrid teams