Development of Mascot Robot System with Casual Communication Ability

2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 21300080
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sensitivity informatics/Soft computing
• Research Institution: Tokyo Institute of Technology
• Principal Investigator: HIROTA Kaoru 東京工業大学, 大学院・総合理工学研究科, 教授 (50130943)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): FANGYAN Dong 東京工業大学, 総合理工学研究科(研究院), 助教 (30432024)
• Project Period (FY): 2009 – 2012
• Keywords: 感性ロボティックス / ファジィシステム

Research Abstract

A mascot robot system consisting of 5 eye-robots connected to internet by using RTM(Windows version) is constructed, a demonstration DVD entitled “enjoying home party by 4 humans and 5 robots” is created to show the realization of casual communication in humans-robots interaction, and more than 10 jounal-papers/plenary-talks are published/done.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Soft-Computing-based EmotionalExpression Mechanism for Game of Computer Go (2013)
  • Author(s): Chang-Shing Lee, Met-Hui Wang, Meng-Jhen Wu, Yuki Nakagawa, Hiroshi Tsuji, Yoichi Yamazaki, Kaoru Hirota
  • Journal Title: J. of Soft Computing
  • DOI: DOI:10.1007/s00500-012-0963-9
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Oo Han Thet, Chastine Fatichah, Zhentao Liu, Masashi Yamaguchi, Martin Leonard Tangel, Fangyan Dong, Yoichi Yamazaki, Kaoru Hirota: Multimodal Gesture Recognition for Mascot Robot System Based on Choquet Integral Using Camera and 3D Accelerometers Fusion (2011)
  • Author(s): Yongkang Tang, Hai An Vu, Phuc Q. Le, Daisuke Masano
  • Journal Title: J. of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics Volume: Vol.15,No.5 Pages: 563-572
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] RTM(Robot Technology Middleware) Based Dynamic Interrupt System for Communication Between Humans and Robots (2011)
  • Author(s): Hai An Vu,Fangyan Dong, Kaoru Hirota
  • Journal Title: J. of Advanced Computational Intelligence and IntelligentInformatics Volume: Vol.15,No.5 Pages: 506-514
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Eligibility Propagation to Speed up Time Hopping for Reinforcement Learning (2009)
  • Author(s): Peter S.Kormushev Kohei Nomoto, Fangyan Dong, Kaoru Hirota
  • Journal Title: J. of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics Volume: Vol.13,No.6 Pages: 600-607
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] Multi-Robot Behavior Adaptation to Communication Atmosphere in Humans-Robots Interaction Using Fuzzy Production Rule Based Frient-Q Learning (2012)
  • Author(s): Lue-Feng Chen, Zhen-Tao Liu, Fang-Yan Dong, Yoichi Yamazaki, Min Wu, Kaoru Hirota
  • Organizer: International Symposium on Soft Computing sp onsored by ASPIR E League
  • Place of Presentation: TokyoInstitu te of Technology,Japan
  • Year and Date: 2012-11-08
• [Presentation] Emotion Recognition of Violin Music based on Strings Music Theory for Mascot Robot System (2012)
  • Author(s): Z.-T. Liu, Z. Mu, L.-F. Chen, P. Q. Le, C.Fatichah, Y.-K. Tang, M. L. Tangel, F. Yan, K. Ohnishi, M. Yamaguchi, Y. Adachi, J.-J, Lu, T.-Y. Li, Y. Yamazaki,F. -Y. Dong, K. Hirota
  • Organizer: 9th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2012)
  • Place of Presentation: Rome, Italy
  • Year and Date: 2012-07-29
• [Presentation] Emotion Recognition based on Human Gesture and Speech Information using RT Middleware (2011)
  • Author(s): Hai An Vu, Yoichi Yamazaki, FangyanDong, Kaoru Hirota
  • Organizer: 2011 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE2011)
  • Place of Presentation: Taipei, Taiwan
  • Year and Date: 2011-06-28
• [Presentation] Multimodal Gesture Recognition Based on Choquet Integral (2011)
  • Author(s): K. Hirota, H. A. Vu, P. Q. Le, C.Fatichah, Z. Liu, Y. Tang, M. L. Tangel, Z. Mu, B. Sun, F. Yan, D. Masano, O. Thet, M. Yamaguchi, F. Dong, Y. Yamazaki
  • Organizer: 2011 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE2011)
  • Place of Presentation: Taipei, Taiwan
  • Year and Date: 2011-06-28
• [Presentation] Proposal of Fuzzy Atmosfield for Mood Expression of Human-Robot Communication (2010)
  • Author(s): Zhentao Liu, Fangyan Dong, Yoichi Yamazaki, Kaoru Hirota
  • Organizer: 20thIntelligent System Symposium Fuzzy AI Neural network Applications Technologies (iFAN2010)
  • Place of Presentation: Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.,Japan
  • Year and Date: 2010-09-25
• [Presentation] Gesture RecognitionUsing Combination of Acceleration Sensor and Images for Casual Communication between Robots and Humans (2010)
  • Author(s): Y. Yamazaki, H. A. Vu, P. Q. Le, Z. Liu1, C. Fatichah, M. Dai, H. Oikawa, D. Masano, O. Thet, Y. Tang, N. Nagashima, M. L. Tangel, F.Dong, K. Hirota
  • Organizer: IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI2010 CEC IEEE)
  • Place of Presentation: Barcelona, Spain
  • Year and Date: 2010-07-18
• [Presentation] Interpersonal Motions for Mobile Eye Robot and its Mentality Expression, Int. (2009)
  • Author(s): Yoichi Yamazaki, Yuta Masuda, YutakaHatakeyama, Fangyan Dong, Kaoru Hirota
  • Organizer: Workshop on Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics (IWACIII2009)
  • Place of Presentation: O-okayama, Japan
  • Year and Date: 2009-11-07
• [Presentation] Casual Communication in Mascot Robot System (invited talk) (2009)
  • Author(s): Kaoru Hirota, Fangyan Dong
  • Organizer: 10th Int. Symp. on Advanced Intelligent Systems(ISIS2009)
  • Place of Presentation: Busan,Korea
  • Year and Date: 2009-08-18
• [Book] edited byRudolf Seising, Enric Trillas, Claudio Moraga, Settimo Termini, Springer (2013)
  • Author(s): Kaoru Hirota, Fangyan Dong
  • Total Pages: 257-263
  • Publisher: Concept of Fuzzy Atmosfield and its Visualization, in "On Fuzziness. A Homage to Lotfi A. Zadeh Vol.1 (Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing Vol. 216)
• [Remarks]
  • URL: http://hrt.dis.titech.ac.jp