A user-centered framework for developing personal pet robots

Author

Lee, Wei-Po ; Yang, Tsung-Hsien ; Su, Ming-Hsiang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Manage., Nat. Sun Yat-sen Univ., Kaohsiung

fYear

2007

fDate

15-18 Dec. 2007

Firstpage

227

Lastpage

232

Abstract

Designing pet robots for home entertainment has become an important application of intelligent autonomous robot nowadays. Yet, robot design takes considerable amount of time and the short life cycle of toy-type robots with fixed prototypes and repetitive behaviors is in fact disadvantageous. Therefore, it is significant to develop a framework of robot configuration so that the user can always change the characteristics of his pet robot easily. In this paper, we present an interactive framework that mainly considers the issues of robot control, human-robot interaction, and robot emotion. For evaluation, we use our framework to construct a control system for a toy-type humanoid robot. Experimental results show the efficiency of the proposed framework

Keywords

entertainment; humanoid robots; intelligent robots; man-machine systems; user centred design; home entertainment; human-robot interaction; intelligent autonomous robot; personal pet robots; toy-type humanoid robot; user-centered framework; Artificial intelligence; Cognitive robotics; Control systems; Human robot interaction; Intelligent robots; Orbital robotics; Positron emission tomography; Prototypes; Robot control; Robot sensing systems; Emotion; Human-robot Interaction; Pet Robot; Robot Entertainment;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Biomimetics, 2007. ROBIO 2007. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sanya

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1761-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1758-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBIO.2007.4522165

Filename

4522165