Development of a Bioinstrumentation System in the Interaction between a Human and a Robot

Author

Itoh, Kazuko ; Miwa, Hiroyasu ; Nukariya, Y. ; Zecca, Massimiliano ; Takanobu, Hideaki ; Roccella, Stefano ; Carrozza, Maria ; Dario, Paolo ; Takanishi, A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. Eng., Waseda Univ., Tokyo

fYear

2006

fDate

9-15 Oct. 2006

Firstpage

2620

Lastpage

2625

Abstract

Personal robots, which are expected to become popular in the future, are required to be active in joint work and community life with humans. Such robots must have no bad physical or psychical effect on humans. The psychical effect of a robot on humans has been subjectively measured using questionnaires. However, it has not been objectively measured yet. Human emotion and the consciousness direction can be measured by physiological parameters and body motion, respectively. Therefore, the bioinstrumentation system WB-1 was developed in order to objectively measure the psychical effect of a robot on a human. It can measure physiological parameters such as respiration, heart rate, perspiration and pulse wave, and arm motion. Analyzing human stress in the interaction with a robot from electrocardiogram, the robot could generate a motion for decreasing the stress

Keywords

biomedical equipment; biomedical measurement; electrocardiography; humanoid robots; instrumentation; man-machine systems; WB-1 bioinstrumentation system; arm motion; body motion; electrocardiogram; heart rate; human emotion; human stress analysis; personal robots; physiological parameters; psychical effect; pulse wave; Biomedical engineering; Biomedical measurements; Human robot interaction; Humanoid robots; Intelligent robots; Motion measurement; Orbital robotics; Psychology; Robot kinematics; Service robots; Bioinstrumentation; Interaction; Motion Capture; Physiological Parameter;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2006 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0258-1

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0259-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IROS.2006.281941

Filename

4058785