Fritz - A Humanoid Communication Robot
- Authors: Maren Bennewitz, Felix Faber, Dominik Joho, and
Sven Behnke
- In Proceedings of 16th IEEE International Symposium on
Robot
& Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), pp.
1072-1077, Jeju Island,
Korea, August 2007.
- Abstract:
In this paper, we present the humanoid communication robot Fritz. Our
robot communicates with people in an intuitive, multimodal way. Fritz
uses speech, facial expressions, eye-gaze, and gestures to interact
with people. Depending on the audio-visual input, our robot shifts its
attention between different persons in order to involve them into the
conversation. He performs human-like arm gestures during the
conversation and also uses pointing gestures generated with eyes, head,
and arms to direct the attention of its communication partners towards
objects of interest. To express its emotional state, the robot
generates facial expressions and adapts the speech synthesis. We
discuss experiences made during two public demonstrations of our robot.
- Full paper: RO-MAN_07_Fritz.pdf
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