<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><b class="">Fully funded PhD position in Human-Robot Interaction between APSYS and Institute for Intelligent Systems and Robotics at Sorbonne University (EIT Digital Industrial Doctorate Programme)</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The EIT Digital Industrial Doctorate is a new PhD programme that integrates scientific and technical research work with ‘hands on’ innovation and entrepreneurship training. </div><div class="">The programme involves partner universities, institutes and companies and is implemented by EIT Digital DTCs. </div><div class="">Geographical mobility (6 months) as well as an internship-based business development venture (6 months) are fully embedded within the doctoral work.</div><div class="">The thesis is funded by EIT Digital and APSYS SAS (<a href="http://www.apsys-airbus.com/" class="">www.apsys-airbus.com</a>).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><b class=""><i class="">Human-Machine Interaction in a robotized environment: adapting robot behavior to psychological and emotional trends of expected and not expected human interactors</i></b><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Summary</b><br class=""><br class="">In this thesis, we propose to develop (i) computational models of interpersonal human-robot interactions able to assess human psychological states (e.g., stress, attention) and to continuously adapt to them, as well as (ii) experimental methodologies of evaluation in real co-working scenarios. We target operational missions as well as not expected situations with non-operational humans (e.g., individual not expected to interact with the collaborative robot). Collaborative robots will be more and more deployed in a real human environment or engaged in face-to-face human interaction when accomplishing their duty. In such context, there is a need for deep and accurate understanding of psychological human co-workers. Mutual and personalized adaptation of behaviours is certainly a key element of long-term safe interactions.<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">APSYS will use these technological assets to<br class=""><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Simulate safety critical situations involving human to robot interactions<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Process the output of these situations to be able to assess global safety of production process based on human and robot cooperation<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><b class="">Methodological approach</b><br class="">Taking advantage of introduction of robots in a human team, production manager can expect direct contribution from robots to safety process because:<br class=""><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Robots can in a real time manner with sensors and perception algorithms understand what happens in the process<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• With specific algorithms they can analyse emotional mood and level of stress of all human actors<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• At every time making the synthesis of (deep understanding of current situation) and (anticipation of potential trajectories and movements of all actors whatever human or robots) they will predict most dreaded behaviours or situations with criticality / probability or level of belief assessment<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Finally, they will interact with the process to reduce probability or criticality of those situations and send alert / alarm messages for concerned human actors to influence their behaviour to avoid these dreaded situations.<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>Robots will be:<br class=""><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Mobile autonomous: they will move in the production space shared by human actors and other robots<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Manipulating robots: they work on the production plant and operate in interaction with the system to assemble<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Interacting robots: they may have interactions and concurrent tasks to share with human actors<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>The influence of emotional / stress load assessed from all human actors on the behaviour of human and robots, and on the general process will be a central topic of the thesis. </div><div class="">Applicable Safety metric to the global process and follow-up of its variations along the process will also be possibly targeted by the thesis.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">More details and application here:</b></div><div class=""><a href="https://doctoralschool.eitdigital.eu/application/call-for-students/man-machine-interaction-robotized-environment/" class="">https://doctoralschool.eitdigital.eu/application/call-for-students/man-machine-interaction-robotized-environment/</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""> <div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Professeur</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Head of PIRoS team</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Sorbonne Université - Campus Pierre et Marie Curie<br class="">Faculté des Sciences et Ingénierie<br class="">Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique<br class="">CNRS UMR7222<br class=""><br class="">Pyramide – Tour 55<br class="">Boîte courrier 173<br class="">4 Place Jussieu<br class="">75252 Paris Cedex 05, FRANCE<br class=""><br class="">Tel : (33) 01 44 27 63 08<br class=""><a href="mailto:Mohamed.Chetouani@sorbonne-universite.fr" class="">Email : Mohamed.Chetouani@sorbonne-universite.fr</a> <br class=""><a href="http://people.isir.upmc.fr/chetouani/" class="">people.isir.upmc.fr/chetouani/</a></div></div> </div> <br class=""></div></div></body></html>