Human-agent co-adaptation using error-related potentials.

Journal: Journal of neural engineering
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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Error-related potentials (ErrP) have been proposed as an intuitive feedback signal decoded from the ongoing electroencephalogram (EEG) of a human observer for improving human-robot interaction (HRI). While recent demonstrations of this approach have successfully studied the use of ErrPs as a teaching signal for robot skill learning, so far, no efforts have been made towards HRI scenarios where mutual adaptations between human and robot are expected or required. These are collaborative or social interactive scenarios without predefined dominancy of the human partner and robots being perceived as intentional agents. Here we explore the usability of ErrPs as a feedback signal from the human for mediating co-adaptation in human-robot interaction.

Authors

  • Stefan K Ehrlich
  • Gordon Cheng
    Technische Universität München, Institute for Cognitive Systems, Arcisstraße 21, 80333 München, Germany.