A Method to Emphasize the Emotional Factor of the Humanoid Robots' Actions : An Analysis of the Bunraku Puppet's Actions using KM₂O-Langevin Equations with Initial Times

Abstract

Amusement robots and entertainment robots must have actions with fertile emosions. New systematic methods to design their actions are desired. For this reason, the authors analyze the actions of a Bunraku puppet. Bunraku is a classical puppet show in Japan and typical emotional actions are expressed by experts of puppet manipulation. The actions of a Bunraku puppet which is manipulated by the experts are observed and analysed. The emotional factor of the actions are extracted and the authors propose a method to design actions by emphasizing these extracted emotional factors.