2015 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
Development of a humanoid robot motion teaching system based on the interpretation of tactile instructions
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26880014
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| Research Institution | Osaka University |
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Principal Investigator |
ダーラリベラ ファビオ 大阪大学, 基礎工学研究科, 特認助教 (80740092)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-08-29 – 2016-03-31
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| Keywords | Human-robot interaction / Touch / Humanoid robot |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
The research focused on the study of tactile interaction between users and a humanoid robot. Touch as a way of conveying instructions to a robot is very appealing for its intuitiveness, especially for the case of humanoids. Their structural similarity with humans allows exploiting users' innate knowledge of human-human interaction to provide a natural and intuitive human-robot interaction.
However, it is still unclear how a robot, and in particular a humanoid one, should act when being touched. To investigate this aspect in this research responses that people expect from a humanoid being touched were collected using a small size humanoid robot equipped with whole body tactile sensing.
An algorithm for the automatic clustering of similar responses was developed. This allowed the identification of distinct types of responses. Evaluation of how this automatic clustering matches common sense were then performed. Results showed very strong correlation between the automatic grouping and people's common sense, providing support to the idea that the automatically identified types of responses correspond to a sound classification of robot’s responses to touch.
The identified types of responses are expected to provide a reference guide for the development of human-robot interaction systems in which touch is used a communication mean between users and robots.
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| Research Progress Status |
27年度が最終年度であるため、記入しない。
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
27年度が最終年度であるため、記入しない。
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