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Ability of Humanoid Robot to Perform Emotional Body Gestures

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Advances in Service and Industrial Robotics (RAAD 2017)

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This paper presents an analysis of humanoid robot ability to perform human upper body language regarding several typical human emotional states. A young actor has been involved as a model of affective states. Experiments on real robot have been carried out in order to find its dynamics. A criterion that allows us to detect robot possibility of performing emotions by movements is defined. Analysis of how to compensate robot shortcomings such as limited degrees of freedom and joint’s activation in performing emotions is given.

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Acknowledgements

The results presented in the paper represent the research outcome of the project “Emotionally Intelligent Robots - EIrobots”, 2015–2017, contract no. 3.4-IP-DEU/112623, under the sponsorship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in the framework of the Research Group Linkage Program funded by the respective Federal Ministry of Germany.

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  1. Robotics Laboratory, Mihajlo Pupin Institute, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

    Djordje Urukalo & Aleksandar Rodić

  2. School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

    Ljubinko Kevac

  3. Innovation Center of School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

    Ljubinko Kevac

  4. Robotics Research Lab, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Zuhair Zafar & Karsten Berns

  5. Department of Computer Science, University of Basrah, Basrah, Iraq

    Salah Al-Darraji

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    Carlo Ferraresi

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    Giuseppe Quaglia

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Urukalo, D., Kevac, L., Zafar, Z., Al-Darraji, S., Rodić, A., Berns, K. (2018). Ability of Humanoid Robot to Perform Emotional Body Gestures. In: Ferraresi, C., Quaglia, G. (eds) Advances in Service and Industrial Robotics. RAAD 2017. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 49. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61276-8_69

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