Title :
Development of friendly artifact-first prototype: penguin
Author :
Hoshino, Yukiko ; Miyamoto, Masaki ; Suzuki, Yasutada ; Yamamoto, Hideko ; Inaba, Masayuki ; Inoue, Hirochika
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Mech.-Inf., Tokyo Univ., Japan
Abstract :
Describes what a friendly artifact is and the development of the first prototype robot system of a friendly artifact for multiple sensored interaction. The multiple sensored interaction is indispensable to realize the recognition of scene context, natural communication, self-expression and intuitive teaching which enables the robot to work besides humans in daily life. We developed a full-body prototype robot which works on a table. It has cameras, microphones, and a tactile sensor suit which covers its entire body. It also has a speaker to speak with, and has 15 DOF to realize gestures. A system with multi-threaded structure was built to realize multiple sensored interaction based on context and was implemented as a context based interaction system, the plausibility was confirmed in an experiment
Keywords :
CCD image sensors; gesture recognition; man-machine systems; microphones; natural languages; robots; sensor fusion; tactile sensors; context based interaction system; friendly artifact; full-body prototype robot; intuitive teaching; multi-threaded structure; multiple sensored interaction; natural communication; penguin; scene context; self-expression; Cameras; Context; Education; Educational robots; Human robot interaction; Layout; Microphones; Prototypes; Robot sensing systems; Robot vision systems;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Robots and Systems, 1999. IROS '99. Proceedings. 1999 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kyongju
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5184-3
DOI :
10.1109/IROS.1999.812815
