Recognition and expression of emotions by a symbiotic android head

Daniele Mazzei, Abolfazl Zaraki, Nicole Lazzeri, Danilo De Rossi

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Abstract

The creation of social empathie communication channels between social robots and humans has started to become reality. Nowadays, the development of empathie and affective agents is giving to scientists another way to explore the social dimension of human beings. In this work, we introduce the FACE humanoid project that aims at creating a social and emotional android. FACE is an android head with an articulated neck mounted on a passive body. In order to enable FACE to perceive and express emotions, two dedicated engines have been developed. A sensory apparatus able to perceive the 'social world', and a facial expressions generation engine that allows the robot to express its synthetic emotions. The system has been also integrated with an attention-based gaze generation component that allows the robot to autonomously follow a conversation between its partners. The developed framework has been implemented and tested in several standard human-robot interaction settings. Results demonstrated the promising social capabilities of the robot to perceive and convey emotions to humans through the generation of emotional perceivable facial expressions and socially aligned behaviour.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2014 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Humanoids 2014
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages134-139
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781479971749
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 12 Feb 2015
Event2014 14th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Humanoids 2014 - Madrid, Spain
Duration: 18 Nov 201420 Nov 2014

Publication series

NameIEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots
Volume2015-February
ISSN (Print)2164-0572
ISSN (Electronic)2164-0580

Conference

Conference2014 14th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Humanoids 2014
Country/TerritorySpain
CityMadrid
Period18/11/1420/11/14

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