Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : May 27, 2020 - May 30, 2020
Establishing a smooth communication between robot and human is an important issue for communication robots. In recent years, several studies have adopted robot’s emotion expression to realize such communication. In previous research, emotion of the robot was expressed by several factors such as robot’s language, voice, facial expression, and body motion. In this paper, the vertical oscillation of the robot was proposed as an effective factor to express robot’s short-term emotion during a conversation. For this purpose, we prepared a robot expressing its basic four emotions, i.e. happiness, anger, sadness, and relief, utilizing a gesture and a vertical oscillation. To verify the effect of the oscillation, we conducted an experiment comparing the subjective evaluation of human about robot’s emotion expression with/without oscillation. The result of the experiment showed that each emotion expression has proper oscillation.
