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Artificial Partners to Understand Joint Action: Representing Others to Develop Effective Coordination.

De Vicariis, C., Pusceddu, G., Chackochan, V. T. and Sanguineti, V., 2022. Artificial Partners to Understand Joint Action: Representing Others to Develop Effective Coordination. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 30, 1473-1482.

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DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2022.3176378

Abstract

In the last years, artificial partners have been proposed as tools to study joint action, as they would allow to address joint behaviors in more controlled experimental conditions. Here we present an artificial partner architecture which is capable of integrating all the available information about its human counterpart and to develop efficient and natural forms of coordination. The model uses an extended state observer which combines prior information, motor commands and sensory observations to infer the partner’s ongoing actions (partner model). Over trials, these estimates are gradually incorporated into action selection. Using a joint planar task in which the partners are required to perform reaching movements while mechanically coupled, we demonstrate that the artificial partner develops an internal representation of its human counterpart, whose accuracy depends on the degree of mechanical coupling and on the reliability of the sensory information. We also show that human-artificial dyads develop coordination strategies which closely resemble those observed in human-human dyads and can be interpreted as Nash equilibria. The proposed approach may provide insights for the understanding of the mechanisms underlying humanhuman interaction. Further, it may inform the development of novel neuro-rehabilitative solutions and more efficient human-machine interfaces.

Item Type:Article
ISSN:1534-4320
Uncontrolled Keywords:Brain modeling; Computer architecture; Robot sensing systems; Task analysis; Computational modeling; Observers; Haptic interfaces; Joint action; human-robot interaction; partner model; game theory
Group:Faculty of Science & Technology
ID Code:37083
Deposited By: Symplectic RT2
Deposited On:22 Jun 2022 08:43
Last Modified:22 Jun 2022 08:43

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