GUIDER: Evaluating Goal-Free Human Intent Inference for Teleoperated Manipulation on Real-Robot Data
TL;DR
The Global User Intent Dual-phase Estimation for Robots (GUIDER) is deployed on data collected from a robotic arm to test the manipulation phase across various assistance scenarios, including making tea and fetching medicine.
Abstract
This paper presents an evaluation of a goal-free probabilistic framework for human intent inference during robotic manipulation. We deploy the Global User Intent Dual-phase Estimation for Robots (GUIDER) on data collected from a robotic arm to test the manipulation phase across various assistance scenarios, including making tea and fetching medicine. To support operation, we add online probability updates, workspace limits, support-plane filtering, and a grasping mode that prioritizes feasible grasp regions, all of which are tested on the recorded data while preserving its original temporal conditions. Across 20 manipulation steps in three scenarios, GUIDER estimated human intent within the correct grasp-candidate set in all cases and achieved a time to confident prediction of 3.7 s, a remaining time before first grasp of 49.6 s, a prediction stability of 96.4%, and a runtime of 4.857/4.474 s (mean/median) per perceptual phase of intent.