Pack It My Way: Triadic Human-Robot Collaboration for Personalized Autonomous Packing

Abstract:Personalized autonomous packing requires robots to account for resident preferences that cannot be inferred from scene geometry alone. Expert teleoperators can interpret these preferences and translate them into feasible robot actions, but continuous expert involvement limits scalable deployment. In this paper, we investigate triadic human-robot collaboration among a resident, a correction mediator, and a robot by comparing human-expert and voice-agent mediation. We evaluate the two conditions in a user study across Protection, Compactness, andGrouping tasks, using a Show-Correct-Generalize process to assess preference correction and subsequent generalization after the surrounding objects are rearranged. Results show that voice-agent mediation achieves outcomes comparable to human-expert mediation in two of the three preference categories, despite receiving shorter and less detailed instructions. Both mediators are similarly easy to use, although the human expert is perceived as more reliable. These findings demonstrate the potential of voice agents to reduce expert involvement while identifying perceived reliability and preference generalization as remaining challenges.

Robotics (cs.RO)

arXiv:2609.04620 [cs.RO]

(or arXiv:2609.04620v1 [cs.RO] for this version)

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