Joint Cooperation Between Humans and Cognitive Systems for Complex Task Solving

Abstract

In this paper, we present an overview on recent advances in our work on human-machine communication between humans and technical cognitive systems in order to enable the solution of complex problems that require the joint cooperation of humans and intelligent systems in order to accomplish a challenging task that can be only successfully handled if both interact in a cooperative manner. An example for such cooperation would be the joint assembly of a heavy part by a human assisted by a robot during the manufacturing process of a car. It will be demonstrated in this paper that such challenges in joint cooperation occur very often in intelligent manufacturing environments which provide a very rich application scenario for the successful deployment of advanced pattern recognition algorithms.