Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) conference 2023

Published by Claudia Heyer at 28 August 2023

28^th May – 30^th August 2023, Busan, Korea

The 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, IEEE RO-MAN 2023. The theme of the IEEE RO-MAN 2023 is “Design a New Bridge for H-R-I”, with [H] for Human Health, Happiness and Hope, [R] for Robotic Recovery and Reconnection, and [I] for Intelligent Interface and Interaction. Also, the conference will cover diverse topics related to Robot and Human Interactive Communication involving theories, methodologies, technologies, empirical and experimental studies.

30^th August 2023, morning session (KST Time)

Keynote speaker: Sangok Seok, CEO of NAVER LABS:

New Connections between Humans, Spaces, and Information-Robotics, Autonomous Driving, AI, Digital TWIN

This lecture introduces the future in which people, spaces, and information will form new connections, and explains the core technologies required for this.

The development of high-performance sensors, AI, robots, and autonomous driving technology is rapidly blurring the boundaries between physical space and virtual space, and accelerating the automation of shipping and logistics infrastructure. Ultimately, everyday space itself will serve as a single platform, organically connecting with various services.

The technological topics that must precede such change lie in ‘digital twin’ and ‘mobility.’ A digital twin is a replica of the real world in a digital environment, serving as important data for smart cities, autonomous driving, service robots, XR, and metaverses. As it is highly time-consuming and costly to establish a digital twin of a city, an innovative solution is needed. The technology that performs precise localization based on this digital twin data is also important. In particular, seamless localization should be made possible with technologies such as VL (visual localization), which can accurately determine the location from a single photo, even indoors or between dense buildings where GPS does not work. Mobility, that continues the connection with users in diverse environments, is now the role of the robot. It is still a huge challenge for robots to leave factories and coexist with humans in everyday environments.

In addition to wheels and legs for movement, safe and precise control of robot arms and hands, which enables robots to work, is also required. Software requires even further development. Vision-based deep reinforcement learning that enables natural autonomous driving without expensive sensors, HRI (human-robot interaction) research that creates standards for natural coexistence between humans and robots, robot technology that expands boundaries of movement from indoors to roads, and brainless robot technology that simultaneously controls multiple robots through the cloud and ultra-low latency networks will bring forward the popularization of robot services.

With these technologies, robots will store information and move on their own, becoming an innovative infrastructure that creates new connections between cities, buildings, offices, etc. The future technologies that have stayed in research labs are now increasingly moving into our lives. This lecture will address its prospects and the challenges we face today.

28^th August 2023

Workshop: GROUND

Keynote speaker: Danilo Gallo, NAVER LABS Europe team lead & UX research scientist

Shared Spaces and Unfocused Interactions: Context, Adaptation and Interdisciplinarity for Socially Acceptable Robots
Robots deployed in real-world scenarios face the challenge of fitting into unstructured and dynamic environments shared with people. Understanding of and adaptability to context is crucial for ensuring socially acceptable robot behaviors, even in the case of unfocused interactions with bystanders. This talk illustrates some of the challenges involved in understanding the group dynamics, proxemics, and privacy and ethical concerns related to the robots’ presence in diverse shared spaces and social situations. I will present a series of use cases inspired by the deployment of autonomous delivery robots in our company’s HQ building in South Korea. The talk explores how disciplines such as sociology, design, and computer science contribute to understanding and designing robots that smoothly integrate into the dynamics of groups. Through an interdisciplinary approach, we aim to define robot behaviors that effectively adapt to contextual factors in order to promote socially acceptable interactions in shared spaces.

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Providing embodied agents with sequential decision-making capabilities to safely execute complex tasks in dynamic environments.

INTERACTION

Equip robots to interact safely with humans, other robots and systems.

VISION

Perception to help robots understand and interact with the environment.

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