Brief Introduction
Discover the basic concepts of human-robot interaction and how robots work. Learn how to design a human-robot interaction and different ways in which users can interact with robots.
Description
Introduction to Human-Robot Interaction is part one of the Human-Robot Interaction professional certificate.
This course provides a broad overview of the multidisciplinary topics central to modern Human-Robot Interaction research and introduces all the relevant background concepts; describing how robots work, how to design them, and how to evaluate their performance.
Knowledge
- • The basic concepts, principles and ideas of human-robot interaction.
- • How robots work from the perspective of software and hardware.
- • Different types of sensors and actuators a robot could use.
- • Typical software architectures to control robots.
- • The process of designing human-robot interaction focusing on all the necessary steps to consider.
- • Two interaction modalities that do not rely on speech: spatial interaction and non-verbal interaction.