Designing a robot as communication media - the effect of head and body movement on co-present´s impression

Author

Kuzuoka, Hideaki ; Kosaka, Jun´ichi ; Oyama, Shin´ya ; Noma, Haruo ; Yamazaki, Keiichi ; Yamazaki, Akiko

Author_Institution

Inst. of Eng. Mech. & Syst., Tsukuba Univ., Japan

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

16-20 July 2003

Firstpage

50

Abstract

We have been developing robots as a communication media. This paper focuses on the latest development named GestureMan 2. We used ATLAS, which was developed at ATR to control the robot in proportion to a remote person´s walking and head movement. Our experiment with the system showed that co-present persons got better impression on the robot when it was controlled with a conventional joystick. From this result, we noticed that for this kind of robot to have an affinity to people, not only its figure but also its motion should be properly designed.

Keywords

mobile robots; motion control; telerobotics; ATLAS; GestureMan 2; communication media; copresent impression; remote person head movement; remote person walking; robot control; robot design; Communication system control; Humans; Legged locomotion; Mice; Motion control; Proportional control; Robot control; Robot sensing systems; Service robots; Telecommunication control;

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.2003.1222062

Filename

1222062