Gesture motion programming by applying robot motion hierarchy structure for the educational/entertainment robot Engkey

Author

Kim, Jaewoo ; Chun, Kyoung Soo ; Kwon, Dong-Soo

Author_Institution

Human-Robot Interaction Res. Center, Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Daejeon, South Korea

fYear

2012

fDate

21-23 May 2012

Firstpage

36

Lastpage

39

Abstract

Educational/entertainment robots are usually designed to perform various gesture motions for nonverbal communication or interaction with humans[1]. This paper proposed a robot motion programming methodology by applying three-level robot motion hierarchical structure and a gesture variation method that can easily apply emotional attributes (Joy, Normal or Sad) to a robot´s gesture. Experiments and evaluation tests are conducted with a graphical robot motion simulator and a real robot named Engkey, which is developed to carry out several tasks for interactive English education in elementary school or interactive games for elderly people.

Keywords

computer games; educational institutions; educational robots; entertainment; human-robot interaction; motion control; Engkey educational-entertainment robot; elderly people; elementary school; emotional attribute; gesture motion programming; gesture variation method; graphical robot motion simulator; human interaction; interactive English education; interactive game; joy emotion; nonverbal communication; normal emotion; robot motion hierarchy structure; sad emotion; Hardware; Joints; Programming profession; Robot motion; Wheels; Educational robot; Emotional robot gesture expression; Entertainment robot; Human-Robot Interaction; Robot gesture motion;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO), 2012 IEEE Workshop on

Conference_Location

Munich

ISSN

2162-7568

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0481-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ARSO.2012.6213395

Filename

6213395