Development of a concept model of a robotic information home appliance, aprialpha

A multi-expert model for dialogue and behavior control of conversational robots and agents

“…As for the integration of dialogues and physical actions, some work tried to incorporate spoken dialogue system technology and service robots [2][3][4][5][6][7]. They combined simple speech understanding and standard dialogue management functions with service robots, so their systems separately plan dialogues and physical behaviors, and it is not easy to execute tasks by integrating dialogues and physical actions.…”

Person Following Robot with Vision-based and Sensor Fusion Tracking Algorithm

“…Regarding ApriAttenda TM 's systemization, the open robot controller architecture (Ozaki, 2003) has been adopted to easily integrate the Target Detection Module and the Motion Control Module, because this distributed object technology based architecture can connect a number of software modules easily even if these modules are located on different CPUs. This architecture has already been successfully applied to ApriAlpha TM (Yoshimi et al, 2004).…”

“…It is essential for these robots to understand human intentions, and interact with humans and the environment. We call these technologies, which create real value for people and society, "human-centric technologies", and have developed some home robots and human symbiotic robots (Yoshimi et al, 2004;Matsuhira et al, 2005a;Matsuhira et al, 2005b). The development of these robots is a typical target for human-centric technologies, but these technologies are not only applicable for robots but also for all machines that humans use.…”

Universal Design with Robots Toward the Wide Use of Robots in Daily Life Environment

“…Fig. 9 shows the robotic interface home appliance ApriAlpha TM developed by Toshiba (Yoshimi et al, 2004), . ApriAlpha TM controls networked home electric appliances such as TV, room lights, and air-conditioners by direction of its user's voice, and gets the information like weather forecast from the internet to tell it to the user.…”