Multimodal Communication in Human-Robot Interaction

As robots increasingly enter homes, hospitals, factories, classrooms, and public environments, natural and trustworthy communication between humans and autonomous agents becomes essential.Single-modality interfaces are no longer sufficient.Effective human-robot interaction requires the seamless integration of speech, vision, gesture, motion, probabilistic reasoning, and ethical decision-making. Multimodal Communication in Human-Robot Interaction presents a comprehensive and systems-level framework for designing interactive robots capable of interpreting and generating coordinated multimodal behavior.Rather than treating speech processing, computer vision, motion planning, and artificial intelligence as isolated components, this textbook proposes a path forward on how they operate together within a perception-action cycle that enables robots to understand human intent, act safely in shared environments, and communicate their reasoning transparently. Foundational and advanced topics are