Reasoning the Trust of Humans in Robots through Physiological Biometrics in Human-Robot Collaborative Contexts

Tiffany Guo, Omar Obidat, Laury Rodriguez, Jesse Parron, Weitian Wang

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Abstract

With the rapid recent growth of automation and artificial intelligence, human-robot collaboration (HRC) is playing a significant role across a variety of fields. Trust between humans and robots is an important element to enable the efficiency and success of HRC. The lack of trust of humans in robots can have critical consequences, especially in real-world applications in which humans must adapt to unfamiliar situations. In this work, we develop a novel and effective approach for robots to actively reason and respond to dynamic human emotions and trust levels during shared tasks. We implement a real-world validation experiment in the context of human-robot object hand-over, which shows the robot's ability to correctly identify and predict the human's trust levels in real-Time and assist the human accordingly in human-robot collaborative tasks. Future work on how to improve the performance of the proposed approach is also discussed.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2022 IEEE MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference, URTC 2022
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781665473453
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event2022 IEEE MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference, URTC 2022 - Virtual, Online, United States
Duration: 30 Sep 20222 Oct 2022

Publication series

Name2022 IEEE MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference, URTC 2022

Conference

Conference2022 IEEE MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference, URTC 2022
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityVirtual, Online
Period30/09/222/10/22

Keywords

  • Extreme Learning Machine
  • Robotics
  • computer vision
  • human-robot interaction
  • trust

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