Title :
Development of a communication robot Ifbot
Author :
Kato, Shohei ; Ohshiro, Shingo ; Itoh, Hidenori ; Kimura, K.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Intelligence & Comput. Sci., Nagoya Inst. of Technol., Japan
fDate :
26 April-1 May 2004
Abstract :
A novel robot, Ifbot, which can communicate with humans by joyful conversation and emotional facial expression has been developed by our industry-university joint research project. This work introduces Ifbot and its mechanics and software architecture for the human-robot communication. As the fundamental technology of Ifbot for the robot-human interaction, we also propose an image processing method for real-time face tracking and talker distinction.
Keywords :
face recognition; intelligent robots; Ifbot communication robot; emotional facial expression; human-robot communication; image processing method; real-time face tracking; talker distinction; Communication system control; Face; Hardware; Humanoid robots; Humans; Intelligent sensors; Mechanical sensors; Robot sensing systems; Service robots; Software architecture;
Conference_Titel :
Robotics and Automation, 2004. Proceedings. ICRA '04. 2004 IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8232-3
DOI :
10.1109/ROBOT.2004.1307230
