A Motion System for Social and Animated Robots

作者：Saldien Jelle^*; Vanderborght Bram; Goris Kristof; Van Damme Michael; Lefeber Dirk

来源：International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 2014, 11(5): 11.

DOI：10.5772/58402

• Social Robot
• HRI
• Animation
• Motion Control

This paper presents an innovative motion system that is used to control the motions and animations of a social robot. The social robot Probo is used to study Human-Robot Interactions (HRI), with a special focus on Robot Assisted Therapy (RAT). When used for therapy it is important that a social robot is able to create an "illusion of life" so as to become a believable character that can communicate with humans. The design of the motion system in this paper is based on insights from the animation industry. It combines operator-controlled animations with low-level autonomous reactions such as attention and emotional state. The motion system has a Combination Engine, which combines motion commands that are triggered by a human operator with motions that originate from different units of the cognitive control architecture of the robot. This results in an interactive robot that seems alive and has a certain degree of "likeability". The Godspeed Questionnaire Series is used to evaluate the animacy and likeability of the robot in China, Romania and Belgium.

• 出版日期2014-5-5