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 Duration 21 hours (3 days)

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Foundations of Human-Robot Interaction

  • An overview of HRI and its interdisciplinary scope
  • Use cases across industrial, healthcare, and service robotics sectors
  • Human-centered design principles for creating interactive systems

Speech-Based Interaction and Control

  • Essentials of speech recognition and natural language processing
  • Building voice commands and responses using Python
  • Connecting speech interfaces to ROS-based robotic platforms

Gesture Recognition and Nonverbal Cues

  • The impact of gestures and body language on human–robot communication
  • Leveraging computer vision for gesture detection and categorization
  • Building real-time gesture recognition using OpenCV and AI models

Collaborative and Shared Control Mechanisms

  • Theory of human–robot teamwork and shared autonomy
  • Safety standards for physical and cognitive engagement
  • Combining sensor feedback with adaptive control for cooperative operations

Architecting Multimodal Interaction Frameworks

  • Synthesizing voice, gesture, and visual feedback channels
  • Handling context and user intent within multimodal environments
  • Constructing a basic multimodal HRI prototype within a simulation

Human Factors, Ethical Considerations, and Safety in HRI

  • The role of human perception, trust, and acceptance in robotic systems
  • Ethical dimensions of collaborative robotics
  • Assessing the usability and safety of interaction interfaces

Practical Project: Developing a Voice and Gesture-Driven Collaborative Robot

  • Defining system architecture and interaction modes
  • Building the speech and gesture modules
  • Integrating and validating the final HRI prototype

Recap and Future Directions

Requirements

  • A foundational grasp of robotics concepts and Python programming
  • Experience with human–machine interfaces or control systems
  • A keen interest in interaction design, perception, or applied AI

Target Audience

  • HRI researchers focused on human–robot collaboration
  • Product designers working on interactive or assistive robots
  • Engineers investigating multimodal interaction and control systems

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