Theraputic-based robotic system for children with autism to enhance their social communication skills

• Project/Area Number: 19700477
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Rehabilitation science/Welfare engineering
• Research Institution: Toyota Technological Institute
• Principal Investigator: RAVINDRA S.De Silva Toyota Technological Institute, 工学部, 研究員 (20449490)
• Project Period (FY): 2007 – 2009
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2009)
• Budget Amount: ¥3,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000); Fiscal Year 2009: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2008: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2007: ¥2,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,400,000)
• Keywords: セラピーロボット / 共同注意 / 動作模倣能力 / コミュニケーション能力 / 動作模倣 / 社会的なインタラクション / ヒューマンロボットインタラクション / 期待値最大化アルゴリズム / インタラクション課題 / 自閉症 / 対話的 / 自閉児 / ロボット動作模倣 / 模倣能力 / 社会的インタラクション / 課題ベースインタラクション / 体操

Research Abstract

We have developed a social assistive robot for children with autism to improve their basic communication skills through child-robot interactions。Specially, our robotic system has developed to enhance their joint attention skills with basic imitation skills。

Research Products

• [Presentation] Unsupervised Approach to Acquire Robot Joint Attention (2009)
  • Author(s): Ravindra S. De Silva, Katsunori Tadano, Stephen G. Lambacher, Susantha Herath, Masatake Higashi
  • Organizer: International Conference on Autonomous Robots and Agents
  • Place of Presentation: IEEE Computer Society
• [Presentation] The Development of an Assistive Robot for Improving the Joint Attention of Autistic Children (2009)
  • Author(s): Ravindra S. De Silva, Katsunori Tadano, Azusa Saito, Stephen G. Lambacher, Masatake Higashi
  • Organizer: International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR09)
  • Place of Presentation: IEEE Computer Society
• [Presentation] Therapeutic-Assisted Robot for Children With Autism (2009)
  • Author(s): Ravindra S. De Silva, Katsunori Tadano, Azusa Saito, Stephen G. Lambacher, Masatake Higashi
  • Organizer: International Conference on Intelligent Robots and System (IROS09)
  • Place of Presentation: IEEE Computer Society
• [Presentation] Therapeutic-Assisted Robot for Children with Autism (2009)
  • Author(s): P.Ravindra S.De Silva
  • Organizer: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systam (IROS09)
  • Place of Presentation: St.Louis, USA
• [Presentation] The Development of an Assistive Robot for Improving the Joint Attention of Autistic Children (2009)
  • Author(s): P. Ravindra S. De Silva
  • Organizer: 11^<th> IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitat ion Robotics, IEEE Computer Society
  • Place of Presentation: Kyoto, Japan
• [Presentation] Unsupervised Approach to Acquire Robot Joint Attention (2009)
  • Author(s): P. Ravindra S. De Silva
  • Organizer: 4^<th> International Conference on Autonomous Robots and Agents, IEEE Computer Society, Pages 601-606
  • Place of Presentation: Wellington, New Zealand
• [Presentation] The Development of an Assistive Robot as a Therapeutic Device to Enhance the Primal Imitation Skills of Autistic Children (2008)
  • Author(s): Ravindra S. De Silva, Tohru Matsumoto, Azusa Saito, Stephen G. Lambacher, Masatake Higashi
  • Organizer: Workshop at ACM/IEEE Human-Robot Interaction Conference
  • Place of Presentation: ACM Society
• [Presentation] Development of a Social Learning Mechanism for a Humanoid Robot (2008)
  • Author(s): Ravindra S. De Silva, Tohru Matsumoto, Stephen G. Lambacher, Masatake Higashi
  • Organizer: International Conference on Intelligent Sensors、Sensor Networks and Information Processing
  • Place of Presentation: IEEE Computer Society
• [Presentation] Development of a Social Learning Mechanism for a Humanoid Robot (2008)
  • Author(s): P. Ravindra S. De Silva
  • Organizer: Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Se nsors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing", IEEE Computer Society, Pages 243-248
  • Place of Presentation: Sydney, Australia
• [Presentation] The development of an assistive robot as a social mediator to enhance the primal imitation skills of autistic children (2008)
  • Author(s): P. Ravindra S. De Silva
  • Organizer: ACM/IEEE Human-Robot Interaction Conference (HRI08): Workshop on Robotic Helpers: User Interaction, Interfaces and Companionsin Assistive and Therapy Robotics
  • Place of Presentation: Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• [Book] IN-TECH Scientific、Intelligent and Biosensors (2010)
  • Author(s): P. Ravindra S. De Silva, 他
• [Book] The Extraction of Symbolic Postures to Transfer Gestural Behaviors into Robot (2010)
  • Author(s): P.Ravindra S.De Silva
  • Publisher: IN-TECH Scientific