Learning is one of the key features of intelligence: The capability of using prior experience to adapt intelligent behavior to novel situations. This requires some form of memory …
Personalization & HMI
Personalization is the user-specific adaptation of a system towards individual user capability, experience and preference. It can be based on assigning the user to one of a number …
Data Analytics
The intensive use of computational tools like Computational Fluid Dynamics and Finite Element Methods in development, test, manufacturing, and service has resulted in a tremendous …
System Optimization
System Optimization is the adaptation of an existing system with a fitting parametrization according to a previously determined optimal system structure. The optimal …
System Architecture
A System Architecture describes the interplay and relations of a number of elements that together create a defined output. It allows, e.g., for easy analysis, control of dependencies and …
Cooperative Behavior
The foundation of Cooperative Behavior is a shared goal between machine and human partner. For a successful, long-term cooperation, the arising relation needs to be fostered …
Perception
Perception is a system’s ability to receive and evaluate useful information about its environment. It comprises manifold capabilities such as detection, recognition, tracking and state estimation …
Risk & Planning
Planning complex maneuvers in real environments usually implies taking risks. For humans, these risks are qualitatively related to utility, comfort and social norms based on. Prediction is …
Prediction
Prediction is the estimation of how the future will evolve. It can be as diverse as a human’s motion, the weather or the next action performed by a human co-worker. While most of us have …
Ethics in AI
When Soichiro Honda established the Honda Technical Research Institute and later the Honda Motor Co. Ltd. after the 2nd world war, he was well aware of the responsibility of engineers and …
Honda i-ACC
Innovation Future driver assistant and autonomous driving systems need to be able to foresee the actions of other drivers. At HRI-EU we have applied our prediction …
Ergonomics for Robots
Innovation There is consensus in academia and industry that physical human-robot interaction technology has a large potential for future robotics applications.
Rider Skill & Posture
Innovation Motorcycle safety is essential for the future of riding.Honda has been pioneering motorcycle safety systems from the first disc brake in 1969 up to the latest airbag and C-ABS …
Cooperative Engineering
Innovation There is a trend for a holistic perspective in engineering optimization based upon knowledge generation from large heterogeneous data sets, machine learning …
Energy Management
Innovation
Energy Management describes the control of energy production, storage and consumption in complex and often heterogeneous systems in order to increase the overall …
Software Systems
Software Systems Engineering is not just the act of writing code, but all the tools and processes required to maintain software during its life cycle. For HRI as a research institute …
CLARA
Innovation CLARA Telepresence Lantern
Socialization is a key element of living as well as aging happily and healthily. However, nearly half of the population aged 65 and older is living in either low-density or rural locations…