Gaze Control of a Robotic Head for Realistic Interaction With Humans.

ABSTRACT: When there is an interaction between a robot and a person, gaze control is very important for face-to-face communication. However, when a robot interacts with several people, neurorobotics plays an important role to determine the person to look at and those to pay attention to among the others. There are several factors which can influence the decision: who is speaking, who he/she is speaking to, where people are looking, if the user wants to attract attention, etc. This article presents a novel method to decide who to pay attention to when a robot interacts with several people. The proposed method is based on a competitive network that receives different stimuli (look, speak, pose, hoard conversation, habituation, etc.) that compete with each other to decide who to pay attention to. The d

SUBMITTER: Duque-Domingo J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7311780 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature