Maggie: A robotic platform for human-robot social interaction

Miguel A. Salichs*, Ramón Barber, Alaa M. Khamis, María Malfaz, Javier F. Gorostiza, Rakel Pacheco, Rafael Rivas, Ana Corrales, Elena Delgado, David García

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Human-robot social interaction plays an important role in spreading the use of the robot in human daily life. Through effective social interaction, robots will be able to perform many tasks in the human society. These tasks may include, but not limited to, handling various house duties, providing medical care for elderly people, assisting people with motor or cognitive disabilities, educational entertainment (edutainment), personal assistance, giving directions at information points in public places, etc. These applications need to develop social robots that are able to behave with humans as partners if not peers. This paper presents Maggie, a robotic platform developed at RoboticsLab for research on human-robot social interaction. The different developed interaction modules are also described.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2006 IEEE Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006
Externally publishedYes
Event2006 IEEE Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics - Bangkok, Thailand
Duration: 7 Jun 20069 Jun 2006

Publication series

Name2006 IEEE Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics

Conference

Conference2006 IEEE Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics
Country/TerritoryThailand
CityBangkok
Period7/06/069/06/06

Keywords

  • Human-robot interaction
  • Personal robots
  • Social robots

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Computer Science
  • Control and Systems Engineering

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