AN EMOTIONAL MODEL FOR NATURAL COMMUNICATION OF A PARTNER ROBOT

摘要

This paper discusses natural communication based on an emotional model for partner robots. The partner robots should have several capabilities such as perceiving, acting, communicating, and surviving for physically and emotionally interacting with a human. Furthermore, It is a problem for the partner robots to have communicating skill with a human. Generally, humans recognize surrounding, I intention, and emotion as communicate with each other. So humans can tell a information more than talking information easily. Because of the reason, we think it is necessarily for partner robots to have emotional model like a human to communicate with humans naturally. First of all, we discuss the I emotional model for a partner robot. Next, we propose the concept of natural communication with a emotional model. Partner robots performs utterances based on the results of the emotional model. Finally, we show experimental results of the I emotional model to discuss the effectiveness of our proposed method.