PGRs meeting and Research Presentations – March. 2016

The monthly PGRs Research Presentations was held on Wed. 9^th March, 2pm, Room MC3108.

This session we had the following presentations:

		Title: Facilitating Individualised Collaboration with Robots (FInCoR).
		By: Peter Lightbody
AGEDNA: Speaker –> Break & refreshments Farewell & Thank you to previous PGRs Student Reps and those who have been actively helping & supporting the PGRs activities & community. Brief about the responsibilities and benefits of being a PGR Student Rep. Reps Election. (By SU Rep.) Announcements, AOB, & closing		Abstract: Enabling a robot to seamlessly collaborate with a human counterpart requires a robot to not only identify human preferences, but also to adapt in order to decrease the likelihood of distress and discomfort for the human collaborator. This work presents the use of qualitative spacial relations, combined with hidden Markov models, to identify and learn the unique characteristics inherent in the way a person performs a task. By doing this in real-time, a collaborative robot will be able to adapt it’s behaviour in order to best accommodate the person intuitive way of performing a task.