About the Workshop

Safe human-robot interaction (HRI) has long been a hot topic in social robotics, which not only covers physical human-robot interaction (pHRI) but also non-contact HRI. The workshop gathers robotics researchers from academia and industry to exchange recent development and trend in safe HRI on different stages of interaction: sensing, modeling, and learning. Confirmed speakers are from a variety of backgrounds: communication, CS, EE, ME, Materials Sciences, etc.

List of Speakers

• Katherine Driggs-Campbell (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIUC)

"Inference, Prediction, and Representations for Safe Navigation"

• Zhi Li (Robotics Engineering Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

"Design Teleoperation Interfaces for Mobile Humanoid Nursing Robots"

• Nazita Taghavi (Louisville Automation and Robotic Research Institute, University of Louisville)

"Non-Contact and Emotionally Safe Interaction of Physiotherapist Social Robot with Autistic Children for Autism Diagnosis and Treatment"

• Cong Wang (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology)

"Fundamental Concerns in Human-Robot Co-working"

• Jingang Yi (Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Rutgers University)

"Control of Unstable Physical Human-Machine Interactions: A Rider-Bikebot Example"

• Néstor Becerra Yoma (Department of Electrical Engineering, Universidad de Chile)

"Toward Voice Based User Profiling in HRI"