Research theme · part of Robotics and Semantic Systems
Human-Robot Interaction & Collaborative Robotics
Mixed-initiative interaction, situation awareness in shared autonomy, knowledge representation for intuitive instruction of robots, and physical human-robot interaction.
We aim to support humans and robotic systems in their efforts to achieve genuine collaboration in complex scenarios, from search-and-rescue settings to the operating theatre.
Our research in HRI and Collaborative Robotics spans across various projects, topics and application areas, but for all in common is that we want to support human users in the communication with robotic systems. This can mean to investigate how to provide situation awareness for remote operators of unmanned aircraft, interpret humans’ behaviour to understand their intentions and goals to make suggestions in mixed-initiative interaction in high-stake scenarios like search-and-rescue operations, or to find the best combination of software tools and methods to achieve highly accurate robot-to-human handovers of surgical instruments.
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Publications
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Designing for dealing with drone dilemmas: ten trade-offs in unmanned aircraft systems' human systems integration
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Getting a Grip: Learning Precise Robot-To-Human Handovers with Hand Pose Conditioning
Projects
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Last updated: 2026-11-10