Human Centered Robot for Mutual Interaction in Intelligent Space

Intelligent Space for Human Centered Robotics

Robot systems for supporting human life are desired recently. For that purpose, the robots need to recognize a human living environment that changes dynamically. However, it is difficult to achieve it only with the sensors carried in a stand-alone robot. Then, the research field on the intelligent environments based on the sensor network has been expanding [Sato], [MacDorman]. The intelligent e...

Intelligent Human Robot Interaction (iHRI)

Facial expression recognition and tracking for intelligent human-robot interaction

For effective interaction between humans and socially adept, intelligent service robots, a key capability requiredby this class of sociable robots is the successful interpretation of visual data. In addition to crucial techniques like human face detection and recognition, an important next step for enabling intelligence and empathy within social robots is that of emotion recognition. In this pa...

Intelligent Agents for Virtual Simulation of Human-Robot Interaction

To study how robots can work better with humans as a team, we have designed an agent-based online testbed that supports virtual simulation of domain-independent human-robot interaction. The simulation is implemented as an online game where humans and virtual robots work together in simulated scenarios. This testbed allows researchers to carry out human-robot interaction studies and gain better ...

Human-Robot Interaction for Intelligent Assisted Viewing During Teleoperation

The Visual Acts theory aims to provide intelligent assistance for camera viewpoint selection during teleoperation. It combines top-down partitioning of a task and bottom-up monitoring of the operator to select task-relevant camera viewpoints. Previous experimental studies have shown that Visual Acts provides camera views of sufficient quality to allow an operator to complete a task. In cases wh...