Paper ID: 2401.13903

Alternative Interfaces for Human-initiated Natural Language Communication and Robot-initiated Haptic Feedback: Towards Better Situational Awareness in Human-Robot Collaboration

Callum Bennie, Bridget Casey, Cecile Paris, Dana Kulic, Brendan Tidd, Nicholas Lawrance, Alex Pitt, Fletcher Talbot, Jason Williams, David Howard, Pavan Sikka, Hashini Senaratne

This article presents an implementation of a natural-language speech interface and a haptic feedback interface that enables a human supervisor to provide guidance to, request information, and receive status updates from a Spot robot. We provide insights gained during preliminary user testing of the interface in a realistic robot exploration scenario.

Submitted: Jan 25, 2024