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Main Authors: Castri, Luca, Beraldo, Gloria, Mghames, Sariah, Hanheide, Marc, Bellotto, Nicola
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16068
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author Castri, Luca
Beraldo, Gloria
Mghames, Sariah
Hanheide, Marc
Bellotto, Nicola
author_facet Castri, Luca
Beraldo, Gloria
Mghames, Sariah
Hanheide, Marc
Bellotto, Nicola
contents Deploying robots in human-shared spaces requires understanding interactions among nearby agents and objects. Modelling cause-and-effect relations through causal inference aids in predicting human behaviours and anticipating robot interventions. However, a critical challenge arises as existing causal discovery methods currently lack an implementation inside the ROS ecosystem, the standard de facto in robotics, hindering effective utilisation in robotics. To address this gap, this paper introduces ROS-Causal, a ROS-based framework for onboard data collection and causal discovery in human-robot spatial interactions. An ad-hoc simulator, integrated with ROS, illustrates the approach's effectiveness, showcasing the robot onboard generation of causal models during data collection. ROS-Causal is available on GitHub: https://github.com/lcastri/roscausal.git.
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spellingShingle ROS-Causal: A ROS-based Causal Analysis Framework for Human-Robot Interaction Applications
Castri, Luca
Beraldo, Gloria
Mghames, Sariah
Hanheide, Marc
Bellotto, Nicola
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Deploying robots in human-shared spaces requires understanding interactions among nearby agents and objects. Modelling cause-and-effect relations through causal inference aids in predicting human behaviours and anticipating robot interventions. However, a critical challenge arises as existing causal discovery methods currently lack an implementation inside the ROS ecosystem, the standard de facto in robotics, hindering effective utilisation in robotics. To address this gap, this paper introduces ROS-Causal, a ROS-based framework for onboard data collection and causal discovery in human-robot spatial interactions. An ad-hoc simulator, integrated with ROS, illustrates the approach's effectiveness, showcasing the robot onboard generation of causal models during data collection. ROS-Causal is available on GitHub: https://github.com/lcastri/roscausal.git.
title ROS-Causal: A ROS-based Causal Analysis Framework for Human-Robot Interaction Applications
topic Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16068