Martinez-Hernandez, U. and Prescott, T.J. (2016) Expressive touch: control of robot emotional expression by touch. In: 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2016). IEEE RO-MAN 2016, 26-31 Aug 2016, New York, USA. IEEE , pp. 974-979.
Abstract
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.
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| Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
| Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > Department of Psychology (Sheffield) |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
| Date Deposited: | 16 May 2017 11:27 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Dec 2022 13:35 |
| Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2016.7745227 |
| Status: | Published |
| Publisher: | IEEE |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2016.7745227 |
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