Adaptable Human Intention and Trajectory Prediction for Human-Robot Collaboration

09/11/2019

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by   Abulikemu Abuduweili, et al.

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To engender safe and efficient human-robot collaboration, it is critical to generate high-fidelity predictions of human behavior. The challenges in making accurate predictions lie in the stochasticity and heterogeneity in human behaviors. This paper introduces a method for human trajectory and intention prediction through a multi-task model that is adaptable across different human subjects. We develop a nonlinear recursive least square parameter adaptation algorithm (NRLS-PAA) to achieve online adaptation. The effectiveness and flexibility of the proposed method has been validated in experiments. In particular, online adaptation can reduce the trajectory prediction error by more than 28 high flexibility, data efficiency, and generalizability, which can support fast integration of HRC systems for user-specified tasks.