Robot Partner Development Platform for Human-Robot Interaction Based on a User-Centered Design Approach
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Abstract
This paper presents a robot partner development platform based on smart devices. Humans communicate with others based on the basic motivations of human cooperation and have communicative motives based on social attributes. Understanding and applying these communicative motives become important in the development of socially-embedded robot partners. Therefore, it is becoming more important to develop robots that can be applied according to needs while taking these human communication elements into consideration. The role of a robot partner is more important in not only on the industrial sector but also in households. However, it seems that it will take time to disseminate robots. In the field of service robots, the development of robots according to various needs is important and the system integration of hardware and software becomes crucial. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a robot partner development platform for human-robot interaction. Firstly, we propose a modularized architecture of robot partners using a smart device to realize a flexible update based on the re-usability of hardware and software modules. In addition, we show examples of implementing a robot system using the proposed architecture. Next, we focus on the development of various robots using the modular robot partner system. Finally, we discuss the effectiveness of the proposed robot partner system through social implementation and experiments.
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OpenAlex topics: Social Robot Interaction and HRI · Robotics and Automated Systems · AI in Service Interactions
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Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering, Tokyo University of Technology, Hachioji 192-0982, Japan
Graduate School of Systems Design, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Hino 191-0065, Japan
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