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Our goal is to create advanced engineering systems such as a soft human interactive robot. The robot developed here is named RI-MAN. RI-MAN exhibits the skill and ability to realize human care and welfare tasks. RI-MAN can search out a specific person in real time by fuing audio and visual information, and understand human speech based on a sound recognition function. In addition, RI-MAN's body is coverd with soft touch sensors, and RI-MAN can react to the amplitude and location of external forces. Using all these sensor functions, RI-MAN can successfully follow human commands and hold up a dummy of the same size as an adult human. RI-MAN will become an invaluable partner robot. AbstractThis video is concerned with a scenario for developing speech-based Human-Robot Interaction (sHRI) components for Ubiquitous Robot Companion (URC) Intelligent Service Robots as one of the next-generation growth engine industries in Korea. Here the URC means that it will provide the necessary services at any time and place to meet the user' s requirements. Thus, it combines the network function with the current concept of a robot in order to enhance mobility and human interface. The main characteristics of this video are to combine of text-independent speaker recognition and Korean-based spontaneous speech recognition from two speakers in scenario. Especially each speaker communicates with service robot through spontaneous speech recognition with continuous words to provide useful information such as daily life schedule and TV program suitable to the speaker recognized. On the basis of these components, consumers will be able to utilize various speech-based services of the robot. AbstractIn this video, we present a scenario for developing vision-based Human-Robot Interaction (vHRI) components for Ubiquitous Robot Companion (URC) Intelligent Service Robots, which exploit strong Information Technology (IT) infrastructure. Here the URC means that it will provide the necessary services at any time and place to meet the user' s requirements. Thus, it combines the network function with the current concept of a robot in order to enhance mobility and human interface. The vHRI components used in this video consist of caller identification, face recognition/verification, and gesture recognition. Firstly we perform face verification and recognition for the imposter and a member of family from face images of two users, respectively. After that, we use gesture recognition to provide the selection of TV channels under noise or long-distance environments. Finally, we demonstrate the usefulness through vision-based scenario shown from video. The robot platform used in this video is WEVER, which is a URC intelligent service robot developed

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SUMMARYThis research paper proposes an immersion-type 3D dynamic simulation environment for designing and evaluating human-interactive robots. This simulation environment is composed of three components (an immersion-type display part, a 3D dynamic simulator part, and a motion capture part). In the immersion-type display part, audio and visual information is presented to subjects using virtual reality technology implemented by parallel processing in general-purpose computers. In the 3D dynamic simulator part, the dynamic movement produced by dynamic interaction between a virtual robot and a virtual subject that emulates the actual subject is calculated in real time. In the motion capture part, the movement of a robot with joints having many degrees of freedom is initially designed by capturing human movement. An experiment was carried out for a situation in which the robot is assumed to lift up a human, as a simulation aimed at realizing a robot that could be deployed in a nursing care facility, and the effectiveness of the proposed method was confirmed.