Title :
Robotic receptionist ASKA : a research platform for human-robot interaction
Author :
Ido, Jun´ichi ; Takemura, Kentaro ; Matsumoto, Yoshio ; Ogasawara, Tsukasa
Author_Institution :
Robotics Lab., Nara Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Ikoma, Japan
Abstract :
Intelligent robots will make a chance for us to use a computer in our daily life. We implemented a humanoid robot, ASKA, in our university reception desk for the computerized university guidance. This paper describes the hardware and software system of ASKA. ASKA can detect a user in front of the reception desk using a stereo camera system attached to the head, and recognize the user´s question utterance. It can answer the question by its synthesized voice with hand gestures and head movements.
Keywords :
gesture recognition; legged locomotion; man-machine systems; computerized university guidance; hand gestures; head movements; human-robot interaction; humanoid robot; intelligent robots; robotic receptionist ASKA; stereo camera system; Cameras; Collaborative work; Hardware; Human robot interaction; Humanoid robots; Intelligent robots; Laboratories; Personal communication networks; Robot vision systems; Speech recognition;
Conference_Titel :
Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2002. Proceedings. 11th IEEE International Workshop on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7545-9
DOI :
10.1109/ROMAN.2002.1045640
