Development of emotional communication robot: WAMOEBA-2R-experimental evaluation of the emotional communication between robots and humans

Author

Ogata, Tetsuya ; Matsuyama, Yoshihiro ; Komiya, Takaaki ; Ida, Masataka ; Noda, Kuniaki ; Sugano, Shigeki

Author_Institution

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

Volume

1

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

175

Abstract

This paper aims to clarify the cooperation intelligence of robots. This paper describes the autonomous robot named WAMOEBA-2R which can communicate with humans by both an informational and physical way. WAMOEBA-2R has two arms of which each joint has a torque sensor to realize the physical interaction with humans, the function of the voice recognition and the face recognition. The arms are controlled by a distributed agent network system. The network architecture is acquired in a neural network by the feedback-error-learning algorithm. We surveyed 150 visitors at the ´99 International Robot Exhibition held in Tokyo (Oct. 1999) to evaluate their psychological impressions of WAMOEBA-2R. As a result, some factors of the human-robot emotional communication were discovered

Keywords

artificial intelligence; face recognition; mobile robots; neural nets; WAMOEBA-2R; autonomous robot; cooperation intelligence; distributed agent network system; emotional communication robot; face recognition; feedback-error-learning algorithm; human-robot emotional communication; network architecture; neural network; physical interaction; physical way; psychological impressions; robots; torque sensor; voice recognition; Arm; Control systems; Distributed control; Face recognition; Humans; Intelligent robots; Intelligent sensors; Robot sensing systems; Speech recognition; Torque;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2000. (IROS 2000). Proceedings. 2000 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on

Conference_Location

Takamatsu

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6348-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IROS.2000.894601

Filename

894601