To Create Robot Mind and Apply it to Nursing Robots

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 22240021
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sensitivity informatics/Soft computing
• Research Institution: The University of Tokushima
• Principal Investigator: REN Fuji 徳島大学, ソシオテクノサイエンス研究部, 教授 (20264947)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): KITA Kenji 徳島大学, 大学院ソシオテクノサイエンス研究部, 教授 (10243734) ; SHISHIBORI Masami 徳島大学, 大学院ソシオテクノサイエンス研究部, 教授 (50274262) ; TANIOKA Tetsuya 徳島大学, 大学院ヘルスバイオサイエンス研究部, 教授 (90319997) ; MATSUMOTO Kazuyuki 徳島大学, 大学院ソシオテクノサイエンス研究部, 助教 (90509754) ; MOTOYUKI Suzuki 徳島大学, 大学院ソシオテクノサイエンス研究部, 准教授 (30282015)
• Project Period (FY): 2010-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 人工知能 / 知能ロボティックス / 感性情報処理 / 情報システム / 言語理解 / 感情計算 / 心的状態遷移ネットワーク / 感情ロボット

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In recent years, robotics technology has been dramatically improved. Also some humanoid robots have been developed to look. However, the robots can not understand human emotions yet. In other words, there is no mind in the robot. This research presented a methodology which creates robots mind using the mental state transition network we proposed. We focus on human psychological characteristics to develop the mind that can recognize human emotion and create machine emotion. We analyze and estimate many statistical data based on emotion corpus in order to derive transition networks for human psychological states. This research also presented modules that can recognize human emotion and create machine emotion. And a method for constructing mental state transition network for emotion interface has been proposed. We have developed a humanoid robot as a prototype of emotion robot.

Free Research Field

感性情報処理