Petr Vanc

Institute of Informatics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

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Petr Vanc is an emerging researcher specializing in human-robot interaction, with a particular focus on gesture-based communication and intuitive robot control systems. His work addresses one of the most pressing challenges in modern robotics: bridging the communication gap between humans and robotic systems in both home and industrial environments. Vanc's research explores how multi-type gesture sentences and gesture episodes can be leveraged to convey human intent to robotic companions, moving beyond traditional single-gesture recognition toward more naturalistic, context-aware interaction paradigms. His 2023 paper on communicating human intent through gesture sentences has garnered 6 citations, while his complementary work on context-aware robot control using gesture episodes has attracted 4 citations — a promising start for recently published contributions. By drawing inspiration from how humans naturally combine different gesture types in everyday communication, Vanc's research aims to make collaborative robots more accessible and adaptable in partly automated manufacturing settings, reducing the complexity of robot teaching and reprogramming. His work represents an important step toward more seamless, intuitive human-robot collaboration in real-world workspaces.