Exploratory behavior in ethologically inspired robot behavioral model

This paper presents an exploratory behavioral model for human-robot communication based on an ethological approach. To maintain long-term human-robot communication, building social relationships between the user and robot is important. As a model of social relationships between different species, we focus on human-dog relationships. We apply dogs´ behaviors observed from the stranger situation test as a base model of the robot. Exploratory behavior is one of the dogs´ behaviors. In this paper, human-robot communication is considered for the purpose of home-care support. For this purpose, an exploratory behavior model for home-care applications is proposed.