Human–robot interaction
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Nov 2, 2026
Josh GruensteinGUEST
Yeah.
Josh GruensteinGUEST
So very, very luckily, there is a whole school of academic research called HRI, Human-Robot Interaction.
Josh GruensteinGUEST
Right.
Martin CasadoHOST
No
Josh GruensteinGUEST
What naming scheme do you use from when you release them? We started off doing hurricane naming, and then we kind of...
Raghu RaghuramHOST
So that's not...
Raghu RaghuramHOST
You didn't read the HRI book, clearly.
Josh GruensteinGUEST
Well, it's...
Lucy HodginsHOST
So moving on now to your PhD work.
Lucy HodginsHOST
So I know your PhD looked at developing safe control strategies for human-robot interaction.
Lucy HodginsHOST
So kind of a similar question to before, but why is this an area that interests you?
Hamed Rahimi NohoojiGUEST
Yes, there are two things for me.
Hamed Rahimi NohoojiGUEST
One thing is human-robot interaction, another thing is safety.
Hamed Rahimi NohoojiGUEST
For the safety, it's mainly back with the control.
Hamed Rahimi NohoojiGUEST
I worked on the Lyapunov method before.
Hamed Rahimi NohoojiGUEST
It's considered stability, but not safety.
Chris HeckmanGUEST
Really a fun course to have to walk through at the end of it.
Chris HeckmanGUEST
As I mentioned, there was an HRI human robot interaction component of this project.
Chris HeckmanGUEST
Where did that live? It was with this single human supervisor here wearing an orange helmet that was the only individual that was on the team who could actually interact with the robots once they were past the starting gate.
Chris HeckmanGUEST
And the interface here of how the supervisor would interact with the robots was up to them as was how the interface would actually communicate with the robots.
Anca DraganGUEST
But we have found papers where people propose this sort of thing for robots that navigate around people.
Anca DraganGUEST
So imagine that we're walking there, and the robot and I get at this bottleneck, which is the door, at about the same time, HRI designers have proposed that what the robot should do at that point is to sort of like drive backwards a little bit and sort of let the person go through.
Anca DraganGUEST
And this is called the back-off strategy.
Anca DraganGUEST
And people have evaluated in the context of navigation.