Paper Info
Title
Replicating Natural Approaching Behavior of Humans for Improving Robot's Approach toward Two Persons During a Conversation
Abstract
Service robots have been developed to enhance the living standard of people. Users of these service robots are not experts in robotic domain. Hence, they prefer to have human-friendly features in these service robots. These service robots often need to navigate toward their users when accomplishing service tasks demanded by the users. Therefore, the ability of a service robot to approach a user in a human-friendly manner would increase the rapport between the user and the robot. This paper proposes a method for human-friendly approaching of a service robot toward a user who is having a conversation with another person. The algorithm behind the proposed approaching method has been designed in such a way that the robot can replicate the natural human tendencies to a greater extent. Natural approaching behavior of humans identified from a previously conducted human study has been utilized for this purpose. The proposed approaching method has been implemented on MIRob platform and a user study has been conducted to validate the capabilities of the proposed concept. The experimental results validate that the proposed approaching method of the robot is capable of maintaining the satisfaction of the users during approaches.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/ROMAN.2018.8525834
2018 27th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Robot's approach,Human-like behavior,Human-friendly robotics,Human-robot interaction,Service robots
Human study,Conversation,Task analysis,Simulation,Computer science,Robot kinematics,Human–computer interaction,Robot,Human–robot interaction,Service robot
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1944-9445
978-1-5386-7981-4
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
11
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
S. M. Bhagya P. Samarakoon100.34
M. A. Viraj J. Muthugala279.31
A. G. Jayasekara335.45