The Proceedings of the JSME Symposium on Welfare Engineering
Online ISSN : 2424-3035
2003.3
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Realization of sign language by the five-fingers robot hand
Kazutaka IharaHajime SugiuchiKensaku TsumoriTatsuhiro Ujiie
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Pages 149-152

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Though a lot of robots play in factories as only industrial use, in most cas es, they are specialized for simple work and are not flexible. But an appearance of the robots which can do general-purpose work is expected for the coming aging society. Social robots should work in human society, they can use tools for human, they must behave like human. For the dexterous works, we considered several of methods, we adopt the imitation of human behaviors that are guaranteed realization. We have developed dual five-fingered hand arm robot with distributed touch sensor and "State Action Event Network (SAEN)"as a simple robot task programming system. We examine the usefulness and problems through making works of actual robots with these systems and we have extended and improved functions. In these days, the more advance in society of hearing-impaired person increases, the more importance of communication with them increases. For doing this, we have adopt sign language. It can tell contents without tools as fast as speaking. But ordinary person cannot use it, because they hardly acquire sign language. So the realization of communication hearing-impaired person with ordinary person is expected with robot.
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© 2003 The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
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