Collaborative Object Handover in a Robot Crafting Assistant

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Main Authors: Tian, Leimin, Xu, Shiyu, He, Kerry, Love, Rachel, Cosgun, Akansel, Kulic, Dana
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Published: 2025
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author Tian, Leimin
Xu, Shiyu
He, Kerry
Love, Rachel
Cosgun, Akansel
Kulic, Dana
author_facet Tian, Leimin
Xu, Shiyu
He, Kerry
Love, Rachel
Cosgun, Akansel
Kulic, Dana
contents Robots are increasingly working alongside people, delivering food to patrons in restaurants or helping workers on assembly lines. These scenarios often involve object handovers between the person and the robot. To achieve safe and efficient human-robot collaboration (HRC), it is important to incorporate human context in a robot's handover strategies. We develop a collaborative handover model trained on human teleoperation data collected in a naturalistic crafting task. To evaluate its performance, we conduct cross-validation experiments on the training dataset as well as a user study in the same HRC crafting task. The handover episodes and user perceptions of the autonomous handover policy were compared with those of the human teleoperated handovers. While the cross-validation experiment and user study indicate that the autonomous policy successfully achieved collaborative handovers, the comparison with human teleoperation revealed avenues for further improvements.
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spellingShingle Collaborative Object Handover in a Robot Crafting Assistant
Tian, Leimin
Xu, Shiyu
He, Kerry
Love, Rachel
Cosgun, Akansel
Kulic, Dana
Robotics
Robots are increasingly working alongside people, delivering food to patrons in restaurants or helping workers on assembly lines. These scenarios often involve object handovers between the person and the robot. To achieve safe and efficient human-robot collaboration (HRC), it is important to incorporate human context in a robot's handover strategies. We develop a collaborative handover model trained on human teleoperation data collected in a naturalistic crafting task. To evaluate its performance, we conduct cross-validation experiments on the training dataset as well as a user study in the same HRC crafting task. The handover episodes and user perceptions of the autonomous handover policy were compared with those of the human teleoperated handovers. While the cross-validation experiment and user study indicate that the autonomous policy successfully achieved collaborative handovers, the comparison with human teleoperation revealed avenues for further improvements.
title Collaborative Object Handover in a Robot Crafting Assistant
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.19991