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Focused Section on Applications of Intelligent Human-Robot Collaboration and Interaction

As robots move from laboratories and exhibitions into real-world social environments, robots are gradually becoming an integral part of daily human activities and expanding in previously unexplored applications. The synergy of human intelligence with robot hardware has been shown to improve the robot performance of nonroutine tasks and improve the quality of human lives. Potentials of human-robot collaboration and interaction are highlighted by innovative design, modeling, control, and computer science in applications such as human supervisory control of robots in the performance of collaborative tasks, remote control of telerobots for nonroutine tasks, and human–robot social interaction. To call for attention from academic and industrial researchers to develop innovative human-robot interaction systems, this focused section is dedicated to soliciting cutting-edge and novel results addressing human-robot collaboration and interaction in manufacturing, automation, construction, agriculture, human healthcare, medical operation, education, or vehicles in inaccessible environments. Papers containing novel theoretical and/or experimental results are highly encouraged.

Editors

  • Chao-Chieh Lan

    National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan cclan@mail.ncku.edu.tw

  • Mihoko Niitsuma

    Chuo University, Japan niitsuma@mech.chuo-u.ac.jp

  • Pei-Chun Lin

    National Taiwan University, Taiwan peichunlin@ntu.edu.tw

  • Gabor Sziebig

    The Arctic University of Norway, Norway Gabor.Sziebig@sintef.no

  • Gim Song Soh

    Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore sohgimsong@sutd.edu.sg

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