机器人-多人交流中交流对象的选择机制——一种基于交流意愿度的方法

An approach of interact partner select to human-robot interaction—A method based on communication willing

在机器人越来越多地进入家庭使用的背景下,其与人类进行交流的能力日益重要,如何选择合适的交流对象,成为机器人技术面临的一个重要问题.关于这方面的研究很多,主要是处理机器人-人这种一对一的交流方式的研究,对于机器人-人群交流中合适交流对象的选择机制研究很少.根据对人类交流对象的选择标准的研究,提出了交流意愿度的概念,并在此基础上给出了选择交流对象的方法.

The ability of robots to communicate with people is increasingly important as robots' heavy application in household.How to select an appropriate interaction partner from a crowd of people is becoming a hot topic in the study of robot.However,most research has dealt with only interaction between one robot and one person,there quite few discussions about communication a robot and multiple people.It is proposed a method which enable a robot to communicate with multiple people using the'selection priority of the interactive partner' based on the concept of'degree of communication willing(DCW)'.In the method,robot first calculates the degree of existence(DE) of cell(r,θ),then calculates DCW of cell which DE satisfies some kind of threshold.Robot selects the one with highest DCW people as interact partner and communicates with he/she using dialogue expression,facial expression and gesture expression.