Publication
Probabilistic Modeling of Human Movements for Intention Inference
Zhikun Wang; Marc Peter Deisenroth; Heni Ben Amor; David Vogt; Bernhard Schölkopf; Jan Peters
In: Nicholas Roy; Paul Newman; Siddhartha S. Srinivasa (Hrsg.). Robotics: Science and Systems VIII. Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS-2012), July 9-13, Sydney, Australia, RSS Foundation, 2012.
Abstract
Inference of human intention may be an essential step towards understanding human actions and is hence important for realizing efficient human-robot interaction. In this paper, we propose the Intention-Driven Dynamics Model (IDDM), a latent variable model for inferring unknown human intentions. We train the model based on observed human movements/actions. We introduce an efficient approximate inference algorithm to infer the human’s intention from an ongoing movement. We verify the feasibility of the IDDM in two scenarios, ie, target inference in robot table tennis and action recognition for interactive humanoid robots. In both tasks, the IDDM achieves substantial improvements over state-of-the-art regression and classification.