Fable: Socially Interactive Modular Robot

Arnþór Magnússon; Moises Pacheco; Mikael Moghadam; Henrik Hautop  Lund; David Johan Christensen

Fable: Socially Interactive Modular Robot

Arnþór Magnússon, Moises Pacheco, Mikael Moghadam, Henrik Hautop Lund, David Johan Christensen

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Abstract

Modular robots have a significant potential as user-reconfigurable robotic playware, but often lack sufficient sensing for social interaction. We address this issue with the Fable modular robotic system by exploring the use of smart sensor modules that has a better ability to sense the behavior of the user. In this paper we describe the development of a smart sensor module which includes a 3D depth camera, and a server-side software architecture featuring user tracking, posture detection and a near-real-time facial recognition. Further, we describe how the Fable system with the smart sensor module has been tested in educational and playful contexts and present experiments to document its functional performance.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of 18th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics
Number of pages	8
Publication date	2013
Publication status	Published - 2013
Event	18th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics 2013 - Daejeon Convention Center, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of Duration: 30 Jan 2013 → 1 Feb 2013 Conference number: 18

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Conference	18th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics 2013
Number	18
Location	Daejeon Convention Center
Country/Territory	Korea, Republic of
City	Daejeon
Period	30/01/2013 → 01/02/2013

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Human-robot interaction
Modular robots
Playware
Vision

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