Gestion des croyances de l'homme et du robot et architecture pour la planification et le contrôle de la tâche collaborative homme-robot

Goal of this thesis was to formalize and to implement a decisional layer for a robot achieving tasks collaboratively with a human to achieve a shared goal. Some functionalities were already there or were built during my own thesis by other inside the team. My first task was to study and formalize the skills needed by the robot. Consequently some of the existing functional modules were improved by some other members of the team or myself. My first main contribution was to develop a new high level control component to integrate and manage the different robot skills according to 3 main activities : state of the world build and update; goals and plans management; manipulation motions execution and monitoring. My second main contribution was to improve geometric and temporal reasoning skills so that first, the robot could better understand and track changes in the world and second, infer when the human had some beliefs about the world that were distinct from its own beliefs.