Expressive touch: Control of robot emotional expression by touch

Uriel Martinez Hernandez; Tony J. Prescott

doi:10.1109/ROMAN.2016.7745227

Expressive touch: Control of robot emotional expression by touch

Uriel Martinez Hernandez, Tony J. Prescott

University of Sheffield

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In this paper, we present a work on control of robot emotional expression using touch sensing. A tactile Bayesian framework is proposed for recognition of different types of touch gestures. We include a sequential analysis method that, based on the accumulation of evidence from tactile interaction, allows to achieve accurate results for recognition of touch. Input data to our method is obtained from touch sensing, which is an important modality for social robotics. Here, emotion in the robot platform are represented by facial expressions, that are handled by a developed control architecture. We validate our method with experiments on tactile interaction in simulated and real robot environments. Results demonstrate that our proposed method is suitable and accurate for control of robot emotions through interaction with humans using touch sensing. Furthermore, it is demonstrated the potential that touch provides as a non-verbal communication channel for the development of social robots capable to interact with humans

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2016 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	974-979
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	1944-9437
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2016.7745227
Publication status	Published - 15 Feb 2016

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