Environmental measurement for presentation robot to decide action according to the response of participants

Abstract

We are developing the presentation robot system that performs flexible interaction with a group of multiple participants. In order to take a flexible conversation, a robot requires an interaction based on a reaction of a group. In this paper, we develop the environmental measurement system for the robot interaction. We have used a spherical camera, a web camera, acceleration sensors, and a Kinect sensor. As an experiment, we perform the demonstration of the robot presentation, then measure the reaction of participants using our developed system. We discuss the potential to decide robot interaction behavior by using the results of the spherical cameras and acceleration sensors.