JAHRVIS, a Supervision System for Human-Robot Collaboration

Abstract

The supervision component is the binder of a robotic architecture. Without it, there is no task, no interaction happening, it conducts the other components of the architecture towards the achievement of a goal, which means, in the context of a collaboration with a human, to bring changes in the physical environment and to update the human partner mental state. However, not so much work focus on this component in charge of the robot decision-making and control, whereas this is the robot puppeteer. Most often, either tasks are simply scripted, or the supervisor is built for a specific task. Thus, we propose JAHRVIS, a Joint Action-based Human-aware supeRVISor. It aims at being task-independent while implementing a set of key joint action and collaboration mechanisms. With this contribution, we intend to move the deployment of autonomous collaborative robots forward, accompanying this paper with our open-source code.