An Emotion Expression System for the Emotional Robot

Abstract

In this paper, we presents an emotion expression system for expressing emotion for the emotional robot, which have a plurality of different sensors sense information about internal/external stimuli. In detail, we propose method for processing information that is collected through various sensors in an intelligent robot, a method for determining an emotion, and a method for expressing a corresponding action. Our system can express a specific emotion of the emotional robot in the form recognizable by a user so that an emotional communication between the user and the emotional robot through affective communication. An emotional expression system is comprised of an emotion feature information collector component, an internal status management component, an action determiner component and an action expression component. Our system can be applied to the emotional robot. Also, our system can be used in developing the Cyber character having an emotion or developing the apparatus having an emotion in the ubiquitous environment.