Human-Robot Interaction

The professorship will represent the subject Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) in research and teaching. It deals with the research of technical aspects of Assistive Robots (ARs). The holder of the professorship will have an excellent scientific qualification in one or more of the following methods for co-localized interaction with ARs:  context-aware human robot communication with natural language, learning from demonstration, reinforcement Learning, force/torque control, dynamics of articulated systems, compliant and dexterous manipulation, identification, control, and learning with gaussian processes, knowledge representation and task-based grasping, plan-based robot control, behaviour-based robot control, robot motion control architectures, HRI in semi-structured environments (e.g. households)