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Toy play is a basic skill for a humanoid robot after it has joint attention (JA) ability. Because such skill is helpful for human-robot interaction and cooperation, we must realize this skill to enhance the robots communication ability with person. In this paper, we researched a toy play controlling strategy in JA space based on a virtual plate with a serial robot arm, which has five degrees of freedom (5-DoF). For this purpose, a reachable space of joint attention was constructed firstly. And then the toy play controlling strategy was proposed in details. Here we used a virtual plate to enhance the toy play effect. In order to realize this skill better, toy play energy and some restraining relations were analyzed. By contrasting the audio waveform in the experiments, good performance effect of toy play was demonstrated.
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This work was supported by Hebei Province Natural Science Foundation for Youths (No. F2015402108), the Foundation for Young Scholars of Hebei Educational Committee (No.QN20131152), Handan Municipal Science and Technology Projects (No. 1421103054).
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Wei Wang received the M. Sc. degree in control theory and control engineering from Jiangnan University, China in 2008, and the Ph.D. degree from University of Science and Technology Beijing, China in 2012. Since 2012, he has been a faculty member at Hebei University of Engineering, China. He has published about 40 refereed journal and conference papers.
His research interests include human-robot cooperation and implicit interaction.
Xiao-dan Huang received the M. Sc. degree in electronic information from University of Science and Technology Beijing, China in 2012. Since 2012, she has been a faculty member at Hebei University of Engineering, China. She has published about 10 refereed journal and conference papers.
Her research interests include robotics and implicit interaction.
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Wang, W., Huang, XD. Virtual plate based controlling strategy of toy play for robot’s communication development in JA space. Int. J. Autom. Comput. 16, 93–101 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11633-016-1022-2
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