Robot apparatus and emotion representing method therefor
First Claim
1. An autonomous robot apparatus having an emotion model, or a modeled emotion, and capable of expressing the own emotion, comprising emotion management means for detecting and supervising the emotion of the robot apparatus;
- a plurality of behavior describing modules, each describing a preset behavior; and
behavior selection means for selecting one or more of said behavior describing modules for demonstrating the behavior described in the behavior describing module selected;
wherein when one of the behavior describing modules is selected by said behavior selection means, said behavior describing module selected causes a change in a basic posture as a posture at each beginning time point of one or plural motions forming the behavior described in the behavior describing module selected, responsive to the current emotion detected by said emotion management means.
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Abstract
In a robot apparatus, the storage capacity necessary for holding motion data is diminished in representing the emotion by motions exploiting the body resources. In demonstrating component behaviors of the robot apparatus, the basic posture, as the posture at the start time of one or plural movements forming a component behavior, is changed to express the emotion. Specifically, the robot apparatus includes variations for expressing the emotion for the basic posture (basic posture for the emotion). The respective resources are actuated from the basic posture for the emotion and reversion is made again to the basic posture to demonstrate the emotion. At this time, the robot apparatus 1 holds data, such as joint angles, in the course of the movements.
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1. An autonomous robot apparatus having an emotion model, or a modeled emotion, and capable of expressing the own emotion, comprising
emotion management means for detecting and supervising the emotion of the robot apparatus; -
a plurality of behavior describing modules, each describing a preset behavior; and
behavior selection means for selecting one or more of said behavior describing modules for demonstrating the behavior described in the behavior describing module selected;
whereinwhen one of the behavior describing modules is selected by said behavior selection means, said behavior describing module selected causes a change in a basic posture as a posture at each beginning time point of one or plural motions forming the behavior described in the behavior describing module selected, responsive to the current emotion detected by said emotion management means. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. An emotion representing method for an autonomous robot apparatus having an emotion model, or a modeled emotion, and capable of expressing the own emotion, comprising
an emotion management step of detecting and supervising the emotion of the robot apparatus; -
a behavior selection step of selecting one or a plurality of said behavior describing modules, each describing a preset behavior, for demonstrating the behavior described in the behavior describing module selected;
whereinwhen one of the behavior describing modules is selected by said behavior selection step, said behavior describing module selected causes a change in a basic posture as a posture at each beginning time point of one or plural motions forming the behavior described in the behavior describing module selected, responsive to the current emotion detected by said emotion management step. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10)
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