The Journal of Korea Robotics Society (로봇학회논문지)
- Volume 3 Issue 2
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- Pages.154-163
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- 2008
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- 1975-6291(pISSN)
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- 2287-3961(eISSN)
KOBIE: A Pet-type Emotion Robot
KOBIE: 애완형 감성로봇
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Ryu, Joung-Woo
;
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Park, Cheon-Shu
;
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Kim, Jae-Hong
;
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Kang, Sang-Seung
;
- Oh, Jin-Hwan ;
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Sohn, Joo-Chan
;
- Cho, Hyun-Kyu
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류정우
(한국전자통신연구원)
;
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박천수
(한국전자통신연구원)
;
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김재홍
(한국전자통신연구원)
;
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강상승
(한국전자통신연구원)
;
- 오진환 (산업자원부 성장동력 기술개발사업 위탁과제 연구원) ;
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손주찬
(한국전자통신연구원)
;
- 조현규 (한국전자통신연구원)
- Published : 2008.05.30
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.