Dynamic Communication of Humanoid Robot with Multiple People Based on Interaction Distance

Tsuyoshi Tasaki; Shohei Matsumoto; Hayato Ohba; Shunichi Yamamoto; Mitsuhiko Toda; Kazunori Komatani; Tetsuya Ogata; Hiroshi G. Okuno

doi:10.1527/tjsai.20.209

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Dynamic Communication of Humanoid Robot with Multiple People Based on Interaction Distance

Tsuyoshi Tasaki, Shohei Matsumoto, Hayato Ohba, Shunichi Yamamoto, Mitsuhiko Toda, Kazunori Komatani, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno

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Keywords: proxemics, distance based behavoir selection, subsumption architecture, interaction, humanoid

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2005 Volume 20 Issue 3 Pages 209-219

DOI https://doi.org/10.1527/tjsai.20.209

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Abstract

Research on human-robot interaction is getting an increasing amount of attention. Since most research has dealt with communication between one robot and one person, quite few researchers have studied communication between a robot and multiple people. This paper presents a method that enables robots to communicate with multiple people using the ``selection priority of the interactive partner'' based on the concept of Proxemics. In this method, a robot changes active sensory-motor modalities based on the interaction distance between itself and a person. Our method was implemented into a humanoid robot, SIG2. SIG2 has various sensory-motor modalities to interact with humans. A demonstration of SIG2 showed that our method selected an appropriate interaction partner during interaction with multiple people.

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