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Service humanoid robotics: a novel interactive system based on bionic companionship framework

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posted on 2021-11-08, 14:16 authored by Jiaji Yang, Esyin Chew, Pengcheng Liu
At present, industrial robotics focuses more on motion control and vision, whereas humanoid service robotics (HSRs) are increasingly being investigated and researched in the field of speech interaction. The problem and quality of human-robot interaction (HRI) has become a widely debated topic in academia. Especially when HSRs are applied in the hospitality industry, some researchers believe that the current HRI model is not well adapted to the complex social environment. HSRs generally lack the ability to accurately recognize human intentions and understand social scenarios. This study proposes a novel interactive framework suitable for HSRs. The proposed framework is grounded on the novel integration of Trevarthen’s (2001) companionship theory and neural image captioning (NIC) generation algorithm. By integrating image-to-natural interactivity generation and communicating with the environment to better interact with the stakeholder, thereby changing from interaction to a bionic-companionship. Compared to previous research a novel interactive system is developed based on the bionic-companionship framework. The humanoid service robot was integrated with the system to conduct preliminary tests. The results show that the interactive system based on the bionic-companionship framework can help the service humanoid robot to effectively respond to changes in the interactive environment, for example give different responses to the same character in different scenes.

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PeerJ Computer Science

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PeerJ

Acceptance Date

2021-07-22

Publication Date

2021-08-13

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

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Yang, J., Chew, E., Liu, P. (2021) 'Service humanoid robotics: a novel interactive system based on bionic-companionship framework', PeerJ Computer Science 7:e674 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.674

Electronic ISSN

2376-5992

Cardiff Met Affiliation

  • Cardiff School of Technologies

Cardiff Met Authors

Jiaji Yang Esyin Chew

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  • © The Authors

Language

  • en

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