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Journal Article KOBIE: 애완형 감성로봇
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Authors
류정우, 박천수, 김재홍, 강상승, 오진환, 손주찬, 조현규
Issue Date
2008-06
Citation
로봇학회논문지, v.3, no.2, pp.154-163
ISSN
1975-6291
Publisher
한국로봇학회(KROS)
Language
Korean
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
This paper presents the concept for the development of a pet-type robot with an emotion engine. The pet-type robot named KOBIE (KOala roBot with Intelligent Emotion) is able to interact with a person through touch. KOBIE is equipped with tactile sensors on the body for interaction with a person through recognition of his/her touching behaviors such as “Stroke”,“Tickle”,“Hit”. We have covered KOBIE with synthetic fur fabric in order to can make him/her feel affection as well. KOBIE is able to also express an emotional status that varies according to the circumstances under which it is presented. The emotion engine of KOBIE's emotion expression system generates an emotional status in an emotion vector space which is associated with a predefined needs and mood models. In order to examine the feasibility of our emotion expression system, we verified a changing emotional status in our emotion vector space by a touching behavior. We specially examined the reaction of children who have interacted with three kind of pet-type robots: KOBIE, PARO, AIBO for roughly 10 minutes to investigate the children's preference for pet-type robots.
KSP Keywords
Expression system, Koala robot, Pet-type robot, emotion expression, tactile sensor, the body, vector space