Abstract
Humans shake hands as a sign of greeting in order to express a feeling of closeness. Handshake refers to embodied interaction using physical contact. In the case of a small size robot for communication with human, a robot should generate a handshake interaction motion that is similar handshake motion between human and robot. In this paper, we develop a small size hand-shake robot system for the handshake interaction motion with human. This robot system generates the response motion which is a similar handshake motion with a human when the human approaches his or her fingertip to the robot. In this robot system, we adapt an image processing method based on a 3D model for recognition of human fingertip position without obstructing a human hand motion.
