Employing Laban Shape for Generating Emotionally and Functionally Expressive Trajectories in Robotic Manipulators
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| author | Raghu, Srikrishna Bangalore Lohrmann, Clare Bakshi, Akshay Kim, Jennifer Herrera, Jose Caraveo Hayes, Bradley Roncone, Alessandro |
| author_facet | Raghu, Srikrishna Bangalore Lohrmann, Clare Bakshi, Akshay Kim, Jennifer Herrera, Jose Caraveo Hayes, Bradley Roncone, Alessandro |
| contents | Successful human-robot collaboration depends on cohesive communication and a precise understanding of the robot's abilities, goals, and constraints. While robotic manipulators offer high precision, versatility, and productivity, they exhibit expressionless and monotonous motions that conceal the robot's intention, resulting in a lack of efficiency and transparency with humans. In this work, we use Laban notation, a dance annotation language, to enable robotic manipulators to generate trajectories with functional expressivity, where the robot uses nonverbal cues to communicate its abilities and the likelihood of succeeding at its task. We achieve this by introducing two novel variants of Hesitant expressive motion (Spoke-Like and Arc-Like). We also enhance the emotional expressivity of four existing emotive trajectories (Happy, Sad, Shy, and Angry) by augmenting Laban Effort usage with Laban Shape. The functionally expressive motions are validated via a human-subjects study, where participants equate both variants of Hesitant motion with reduced robot competency. The enhanced emotive trajectories are shown to be viewed as distinct emotions using the Valence-Arousal-Dominance (VAD) spectrum, corroborating the usage of Laban Shape. |
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| spellingShingle | Employing Laban Shape for Generating Emotionally and Functionally Expressive Trajectories in Robotic Manipulators Raghu, Srikrishna Bangalore Lohrmann, Clare Bakshi, Akshay Kim, Jennifer Herrera, Jose Caraveo Hayes, Bradley Roncone, Alessandro Robotics Successful human-robot collaboration depends on cohesive communication and a precise understanding of the robot's abilities, goals, and constraints. While robotic manipulators offer high precision, versatility, and productivity, they exhibit expressionless and monotonous motions that conceal the robot's intention, resulting in a lack of efficiency and transparency with humans. In this work, we use Laban notation, a dance annotation language, to enable robotic manipulators to generate trajectories with functional expressivity, where the robot uses nonverbal cues to communicate its abilities and the likelihood of succeeding at its task. We achieve this by introducing two novel variants of Hesitant expressive motion (Spoke-Like and Arc-Like). We also enhance the emotional expressivity of four existing emotive trajectories (Happy, Sad, Shy, and Angry) by augmenting Laban Effort usage with Laban Shape. The functionally expressive motions are validated via a human-subjects study, where participants equate both variants of Hesitant motion with reduced robot competency. The enhanced emotive trajectories are shown to be viewed as distinct emotions using the Valence-Arousal-Dominance (VAD) spectrum, corroborating the usage of Laban Shape. |
| title | Employing Laban Shape for Generating Emotionally and Functionally Expressive Trajectories in Robotic Manipulators |
| topic | Robotics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11716 |