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Hand It Over or Set It Down: A User Study of Object Delivery with an Assistive Mobile Manipulator
Hand It Over or Set It Down: A User Study of Object Delivery with an Assistive Mobile Manipulator
dc.contributor.author | Choi, Young Sang | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Chen, Tiffany L. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Jain, Advait | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Anderson, Cressel D. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Glass, Jonathan D. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Kemp, Charles C. | en_US |
dc.contributor.corporatename | Georgia Institute of Technology. Healthcare Robotics Lab | en_US |
dc.contributor.corporatename | Georgia Institute of Technology. Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-03-11T15:19:01Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-03-11T15:19:01Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
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dc.description | Presented at The 18th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Sept. 27 2009-Oct. 2 2009, Toyama. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Delivering an object to a user would be a generally useful capability for service robots. Within this paper, we look at this capability in the context of assistive object retrieval for motor-impaired users. We first describe a behavior-based system that enables our mobile robot EL-E to autonomously deliver an object to a motor-impaired user. We then present our evaluation of this system with 8 motor-impaired patients from the Emory ALS Center. As part of this study, we compared handing the object to the user (direct delivery) with placing the object on a nearby table (indirect delivery). We tested the robot delivering a cordless phone, a medicine bottle, and a TV remote, which were ranked as three of the top four most important objects for robotic delivery by ALS patients in a previous study. Overall, the robot successfully delivered these objects in 126 out of 144 trials (88%) with a success rate of 97% for indirect delivery and 78% for direct delivery. In an accompanying survey, participants showed high satisfaction with the robot with 4 people preferring direct delivery and 4 people preferring indirect delivery. Our results indicate that indirect delivery to a surface can be a robust and reliable delivery method with high user satisfaction, and that robust direct delivery will require methods that handle diverse postures and body types. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Young Sang Choi; Chen, T.; Jain, A.; Anderson, C.; Glass, J.D.; Kemp, C.C. , "Hand it over or set it down: A user study of object delivery with an assistive mobile manipulator," RO-MAN 2009, The 18th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Sept. 27 2009-Oct. 2 2009, 736-743. | en_US |
dc.identifier.isbn | 978-1-4244-5081-7 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1944-9445 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/37361 | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | Georgia Institute of Technology | en_US |
dc.publisher.original | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | en_US |
dc.subject | Handicapped aids | en_US |
dc.subject | Manipulators | en_US |
dc.subject | Mobile robots | en_US |
dc.subject | Service robots | en_US |
dc.title | Hand It Over or Set It Down: A User Study of Object Delivery with an Assistive Mobile Manipulator | en_US |
dc.type | Text | |
dc.type.genre | Proceedings | |
dc.type.genre | Post-print | |
dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
local.contributor.author | Kemp, Charles C. | |
local.contributor.corporatename | Healthcare Robotics Lab | |
local.contributor.corporatename | Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM) | |
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