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

• Published in: 2006 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
• Language: English
• 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

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...