Multi-sensor controlled skills for humanoid robots

The emerging new generation of robots employed in the public as well as in the private environment is called to interact with the man and should therefore be able to manage cooperative tasks and to deal with a variety of different control problems. Thus an intelligent coordination of the information coming from all the available sensors supervising the system and the environment is needed. In this paper a supervisory control concept is briefly described and based on this proposed scheme some human skills involving audio, visual and force sensors are presented.