CHARM

Start Year:

2010

End Year:

2013

The goal of the CHARM project CHARM (Collaborative, Human-focused, Assistive Robotics for Manufacturing) project is to develop a robotic assistant to support and enhace the abilities of human workers in industrial assembly tasks. SPIN and CARIS lab researchers developed the interactions and communications that takes place between the human and the robot, both gestural and physically based.

The projct is a large, integrated effort involving the CARIS lab at UBC, the Laboratoire de Robotique and the Laboratoire de Vision et Systems Numeriques at Laval University, the Artificial Perception Laboratory at M cGill University, and General Motors, Canada.

SPIN People:

Brian Gleeson

Matthew Pan

Non Spin people:

Elizabeth Croft, Amir Haddadi, General Motors

Publications:

Gleeson, B., Currie, K., MacLean, K.E., and Croft, E.A., “Tap and Push: Assessing the Value of Direct Physical Control in Human-Robot Collaborative Tasks,” Journal of Human Robot Interaction, vol. 4:1, pp. 95-113, 2015.

Gleeson, B. T., MacLean, K. E., Haddadi, A., Croft, E. and Alcazar, J. “Human-Robot Communication for Collaborative Assembly,” in GRAND General Meeting. Toronto, Canada, 2013, pp. 4 pages.

Haddadi, A., Croft, E., Gleeson, B. T., MacLean, K. E. and Alcazar, J. “Analysis of Task-Based Gestures in Human-Robot Interaction,” in Proc. of IEEE Int'l Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Karlsruhe, Germany, pp. 2146-2152, 2013.

Hart, J., Gleeson, B.T., Pan, M., Moon, A., MacLean, K.M., and Croft, E., “Gesture, Gaze, Touch, and Hesitation: Timing Cues for Collaborative Work,” in ACM/IEEE Int'l Conf on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '14) - Workshop on Timing in HRI, 2014, 6 pages.

Gleeson, B., MacLean, K. E., Haddadi, A., Croft, E., and Alcazar, J. “Gestures for Industry: Intuitive Human-Robot Communication from Human Observation,” in Proc. of ACM/IEEE Int'l Conf on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '13), Tokyo, Japan, pp. 349-356 2013.