Life size humanoid robot that reproduces gestures as a communication terminal: appearance considerations

Author

Hiraiwa, Akira ; Hayashi, Kouki ; Manabe, Hiroyuki ; Sugimura, Toshiaki

Author_Institution

Multimedia Laboratories, NTT DoCoMo, Japan

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

16-20 July 2003

Firstpage

207

Abstract

We propose an application that uses a humanoid robot as a communications terminal. We describe a life-size robot that suits inter-personal communication. For simplicity, the current version is restricted to a motorized chair. We show that the robot realizes three service modes: chat mode, e-mail mode and autonomous mode. In chat mode, the hand gestures of the humanoid robot reproduce those made by the operator as captured by surface EMG signal recognition. the humanoid robot is seen as a feasible instrument of telecommunication.

Keywords

electromyography; gesture recognition; legged locomotion; autonomous mode; chat mode; communication terminal; e-mail mode; hand gestures; humanoid robot; interpersonal communication; life-size robot; motorized chair; surface EMG signal recognition; telecommunication instrument; Artificial intelligence; Avatars; Electromyography; Humanoid robots; Instruments; Laboratories; Large-scale systems; Legged locomotion; Multimedia systems; Robot sensing systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, 2003. Proceedings. 2003 IEEE International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7866-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CIRA.2003.1222090

Filename

1222090