20211126_tc_meeting

Meeting Info

• Time and location: 17:00-18:00 CET over Zoom
• Attendees: Matteo Leonetti, Alex Mitrevski, Katarzyna Pasternak, Fagner Pimentel
• Note taker: Alex

Agenda

1. Progress on the TODOs from last week's meeting

Notes

Alex presents a draft of the survey for the robotics community.

The following is a very short list of papers that might be useful for identifying focus areas relevant to the community as well as improving the evaluation system:

1. G. A. Zachiotis, G. Andrikopoulos, R. Gornez, K. Nakamura, and G. Nikolakopoulos, "A Survey on the Application Trends of Home Service Robotics," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), pp. 1999-2006, 2018.
   • Discusses different application areas for service robots. Lists some relevant challenges at the end (reliability, security, ethics, acceptability)
2. M. Basiri, E. Piazza, M. Matteucci, and P. Lima, "Benchmarking Functionalities of Domestic Service Robots Through Scientific Competitions," KI-Künstliche Intelligenz, vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 357-367, 2019.
   • Presents the evaluation approach used in the European Robotics League, which is split between functionality benchmarks (controlled tests of individual functionalities, such as object detection) and task benchmarks (directly comparable to our @Home tasks)
3. I. Lee, "Service Robots: A Systematic Literature Review", Electronics, vol. 10, no. 21, e2658, 2021.
   • Discusses some important challenges for service robots in general, in particular ethics, privacy, safety and security (similar to Zachiotis et al.)
4. H. Li, S. Milani, V. Krishnamoorthy, M. Lewis, and K. Sycara, "Perceptions of Domestic Robots' Normative Behavior Across Cultures," in Proceedings of the 2019 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, pp. 345-351, Jan. 2019.
   • Investigates the importance of a domestic robot's adaptation based on context and cultural norms
5. S. Srivastava et al., "BEHAVIOR: Benchmark for Everyday Household Activities in Virtual, Interactive, and Ecological Environments," in Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2021.

Katarzyna briefly presents a mind map of concepts relevant for human-robot interaction.

TODOs

• Update the survey by Tuesday next week and send a draft of the survey to our own research groups on Wednesday (until Friday); we can discuss any necessary final change during next week's meeting and then send it to the community
• Enhance the above list of papers

Next Meeeting

Friday, December 3rd at 17:00 CET (please email the TC for the Zoom meeting link)