Dr Bipin Indurkhya, Prof. UJ from the JU Faculty of Philosophy has received a grant for joint Polish-Austrian research. The aim of the awarded project is to design a robotic system that will be able to recognise a task based on demonstration and explain it with the use of words, gestures and visualisations. The project will be carried out together with the Technische Universität Wien.
The call for joint Polish-Austrian projects is organised by the National Agency for Academic Exchange and Österreichs Agentur für Bildung und Internationalisierung. The assigned funds cover the expenses related to travelling and accommodiation for awarded scientists, but not their research projects, which must be funded by other means.
One of the researchers the will receive a grant for their projects is Dr Bipin Indurkhya, Prof. UJ from the JU Institute of Philosophy. As we are currently unable to programme robots to perform every type of task in every type of environment, we need to find a way to design machines that can learn to interact with objects they have not encountered beforehand. From this perspective, the user becomes part of the robot’s learning loop.
The project A study on the role of explanations in creating trust in Human-Robot Interaction will focus on studying the process of teaching a robot by its user and its influence on the level of the user’s trust toward the robot. The proposed system is designed to understand tasks based on human description. The robot will be able to explain what it understood, what type of task it perceived and if it will be able to repeat it, even after it is slightly altered. In case of failure, the user may be able to solve the issue by providing a new demonstration.
Design as well as testing will be performed by researchers from both Kraków and Vienna. The conceptual framework of the project will be discussed online with the use of remote communication tools, while implementing solutions will involve travelling between partner institutions.
