Title :
A Soft Human-Interactive Robot RI-MAN
Author :
Onishi, Masaki ; Takagi, Kentaro ; Zhiwei Luo ; Hosoe, Shigeyuki
Abstract :
Our goal is to create advanced engineering systems such as a soft human interactive robot. The robot developed here is named RI-MAN. RI-MAN exhibits the skill and ability to realize human care and welfare tasks. RI-MAN can search out a specific person in real time by fuing audio and visual information, and understand human speech based on a sound recognition function. In addition, RI-MAN´s body is coverd with soft touch sensors, and RI-MAN can react to the amplitude and location of external forces. Using all these sensor functions, RI-MAN can successfully follow human commands and hold up a dummy of the same size as an adult human. RI-MAN will become an invaluable partner robot.
Keywords :
Face recognition; Human robot interaction; Intelligent robots; Intelligent sensors; Mobile robots; Service robots; Speech recognition; Systems engineering and theory; TV; Transfer functions;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2006 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing, China
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0259-X
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0259-X
DOI :
10.1109/IROS.2006.282203
