Design of a Social Mobile Robot Using Emotion-Based Decision Mechanisms

In this paper, we describe a robot that interacts with humans in a crowded conference environment. The robot detects faces, determines the shirt color of onlooking conference attendants, and reacts with a combination of speech, musical, and movement responses. It continuously updates an internal emo...

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Published in2006 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems pp. 3093 - 3098
Main Authors Hollinger, G.A., Georgiev, Y., Manfredi, A., Maxwell, B.A., Pezzementi, Z.A., Mitchell, B.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.10.2006
Subjects
Computer science
Decision making
Educational institutions
Ethics
Face detection
face recognition
Human robot interaction
Intelligent robots
Mobile robots
Orbital robotics
robot emotions
Robot sensing systems
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Summary:In this paper, we describe a robot that interacts with humans in a crowded conference environment. The robot detects faces, determines the shirt color of onlooking conference attendants, and reacts with a combination of speech, musical, and movement responses. It continuously updates an internal emotional state, modeled realistically after human psychology research. Using empirically-determined mapping functions, the robot's state in the emotion space is translated to a particular set of sound and movement responses. We successfully demonstrate this system at the AAAI '05 Open Interaction Event, showing the potential for emotional modeling to improve human-robot interaction
ISBN:9781424402588
1424402581
ISSN:2153-0858
2153-0866
DOI:10.1109/IROS.2006.282327