Development of seahorse robot capable of expressing happiness, sadness and anger

Author

Sayama, Keisuke ; Suzuki, Yuki ; Lim, Hun-ok

Author_Institution

Grad. Sch. of Eng., Kanagawa Univ., Yokohama, Japan

fYear

2011

fDate

26-29 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

659

Lastpage

664

Abstract

This paper describes the mechanism and the control system of a seahorse robot that is able to express happiness, sadness and anger. MP motion sensors (Pyroelectric Motion Detection Sensor), force sensors, and color sensors are employed to express emotion. The seahorse robot consists of a base, a body and a head. It has 4 DOFs (2 DOFs in the head and 2 DOFs in the body) and it weighs 800 [g]. Emotion expression experiments are conducted to confirm the mechanism and the control system of the robot and are evaluated by ten subjects. After they watch the body color and motion), they select one of five emotions. The effectiveness of the mechanism and the control of the robot are verified through emotion experiments.

Keywords

colour; emotion recognition; force sensors; microcontrollers; mobile robots; pyroelectric detectors; robot programming; 4 DOF; MP motion sensors; anger; body color; body motion; color sensors; control system; emotion experiments; emotion expression experiments; force sensors; happiness; pyroelectric motion detection sensor; robot control; sadness; seahorse robot; Color; Humanoid robots; Humans; Light emitting diodes; Robot sensing systems; Force sensor; color sensor; emotion expression; mechanism; motion sensor;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS), 2011 11th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Gyeonggi-do

ISSN

2093-7121

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0835-0

Type

conf

Filename

6106263